From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T07:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Call a Function

Hi --

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Matthew Moss wrote:

>
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Dominik Honnef wrote:
>
>> 
>>> Convert the string to a symbol and send it to the appropriate object.
>> That isn't even necessary, sending a string works just as fine.
>
> Yeah, after the fact, I tried it like you say. For some reason, I had the 
> impression that strings didn't auto-convert to symbols.

The documentation is misleading; it specifies the argument as a
symbol, but it can be either. (And I consider that a feature; I don't
think it's just working by chance.)


David

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