From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-12-22T15:37:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs. constants?

Young H. wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but you rarely touch that in actual practice.  Ruby symbols, OTOH, 
are easily manipulated and widely used.  They have a much wider range of 
applications than Perl symbols.

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