From: Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>
Date: 2009-11-24T00:34:09+09:00
Subject: Re: More on psuedo arrays; Better way?

BC> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>>> Is there a better way to do this?  
>> 
>> x.send("x#{rand(i % N_X_METHODS)]".to_sym))

BC> And you don't need to_sym either.

This x.send() will be executed a million times.

Doesn't that have a fairly high overhead?  Won't a million symbols be
generated?  In my case ... with the m array, only 20 symbols would be
generated.

Does it matter?

Is it possible to run out of symbols?