From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T03:16:42+09:00
Subject: Re: rue teaches piglet about symbols on #ruby-lang

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:01:50PM +0900, Alex Combas wrote:
> 
>>Taken from #ruby-lang with a slight cleanup
>>(I am piglet)
> 
> 
> Woah, that was confusing.


"When I use a symbol," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make symbols mean so 
many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's 
all."

-- With apologies to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Through The Looking Glass 
1871



James

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