From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T07:39:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols

Stephen Cox wrote:
> Ahhh.. I think I got it.
> 
> Thanks...
> 

Of course, note that you can go back and forth between
symbols and strings, but not between variables and strings.

  email = 1   # It's just a 1... doesn't know its own name.

  :email.to_s     # "email"
  "email".to_sym  # :email


Hal