From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T11:36:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols


On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Cox wrote:
> yeah I figured out symbols were the actual value. But one question,  
> if a
> symbol is  no longer used what happens to it? Is it released when the
> procedure it was create in completes?


MRI never garbage collects symbols.  If you create symbols based on
external data you have to be careful.

I don't know how JRuby or Rubinious handles symbols.

Gary Wright