From: Lars Christensen <larsch@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T22:35:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20863] Re: Converting String to Symbol?

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Florian G. Pflug wrote:

> instance_methods() return an array of string, but I need to pass the method
> names to undef_method, which takes a symbol.

WouldntItBeNiceIf instance_methods and relatives returned an array of
symbols in the first place? Symbols are a more generic and efficient
representation of, well, symbols. Introspecting code such as delegate.rb
would certainly benefit from this in terms of efficiency.

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Lars Christensen, larsch@cs.auc.dk