From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2009-03-30T18:31:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols garbage collector in Ruby1.9, fixed?


From: "I単aki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net>
>
> A way to check if a Symbol already exist would be enought for me, but
> it doesn't work:
> To know all the current Symbols I can inspect Symbol.all_symbols, but
> if I want to check a Symbol:
>   Symbol.all_symbols.include?(:new_symbol)
> this will always return true since :new_symbol is automatically added  XDDD

potential_new_symbol = "xyzzy"
Symbol.all_symbols.map {|s| s.to_s}.include? potential_new_symbol


?


Regards,

Bil