From: Stephen Cox <stephen@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T19:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols

Matthew Rudy wrote:

> def do_stuff(message_type)
>   case message_type
>     when :email
>       do email stuff
>     when :sms
>       do sms stuff
>   end
>   puts "done stuff for #{message_type}"
> end

Thanks.

but doing something like:

email = 1
sms = 2

And then the same case statement.

But instead of testing symbols you'd test variables. Same thing right? 
Except symbols can be used anywhere in the application? And may seem a 
more elegant approach to strings that everything needs access too.

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