From: Ilan Berci <coder68@...>
Date: 2007-08-15T02:18:28+09:00
Subject: Re: change of Symbol to respond to intern?

unknown wrote:


> 
> This is because symbols don't respond to intern.  Is there any good
> reason Symbol doesn't respond to intern, while String responds to
> to_s, Array responds, to to_a, etc.?  If not, I would like to propose
> that the intern method be added to Symbol at some point.

irb(main):001:0> class Symbol; alias_method :intern, :to_sym; end
=> Symbol
irb(main):002:0> :symbol.intern
=> :symbol

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