From: Les Nightingill <lester@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T22:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: what are sympbols?!?

Logan Capaldo wrote:
> > Likewise in ruby:
> 
> { :class => "A"  }
> 
> 1.send(:class)
> 
> The hash key has the same name as the method being sent via send, but
> the results are different. 

I too am struggling to understand, and this statement has me even more 
confused!

How can my results be predictable if :class isn't uniquely associated 
with something (hash key, or method)? Doesn't this lead to ambiguities?

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