From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T14:09:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on the Ruby Programming Language Book

Bharat Ruparel wrote:
>>    season = Season::Autumn
>>    puts season
>>    puts season.next
>>    puts season.next.next
> 
> Thanks Jim.  That is cool!  No, way cool!!

Thanks.

The main point is that, if you just want cheap, reliable constant 
things, symbols are handy (e.g. :winter, :summer  will work as fixed 
values), but if you have a set of constants for which you want some 
associated behavior, then a class makes sense.



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James Britt

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