From: Lyndon Samson Date: 2006-01-06T08:44:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Demystifying Symbols. ------=_Part_57463_33003832.1136504659879 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > > I personally know of no use, in *my* application as opposed to Ruby > internals, > for the integer representation of a symbol. How about logging method names in a human readable manner using id2name ? method_missing(id, *args) id: method symbol *args: method arguments ------=_Part_57463_33003832.1136504659879--