From: Anthony DeRobertis <aderobertis@...>
Date: 2006-03-07T00:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols similiar to defined in c++ ?????

Tim Hunter wrote:

> You don't get to choose,
> and you don't even get to find out what the number is (at least,
> without a lot of poking around in Ruby internals).

Not really — finding out the number is easy:

        irb(main):001:0> :foo.to_i
        => 15321