From: "Young H." <armywide@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T15:23:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs. constants?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
> Young H. wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> About symbol I always have the question, is ruby's symbol the same one
>> as (or similiar to) Perl's symbol?
>
> I don't think Perl has anything like Ruby's symbols (except perhaps
> internally).
>

Perl does have something called symbol table:
http://www.sdsc.edu/~moreland/courses/IntroPerl/docs/manual/pod/perlmod.html#Symbol_Tables
Thanks.