From: Phlip Date: 2007-08-25T17:23:47+09:00 Subject: Re: beginning a variable name with a number > You can quote the symbol ... > > t.column :"3g2", :integer In general, isn't the need to store a number in a database column name an example of a "missing abstraction"? Shouldn't a database (or whatever t.column fronts) store its numbers as data? -- Phlip