From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2010-10-13T11:17:53+09:00
Subject: Re: map-1.3.0

1) symbols are not GC'd

2) all external input is string (eg. yaml)


symbols as keys are a feature that saves on char and costs many hours.






On Oct 12, 12:30 pm, unbewusst.s...@fai.invalid (Une Bévue) wrote:
> ara.t.howard <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > map does use strings:
> >http://github.com/ahoward/map/blob/master/lib/map.rb#L123
>
> why did u choose this feature, i was surprised of that :
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'map'
>
> m=Map[{:un => 1, :deux => 2, :trois => 3, :quatre => 4}]
> puts "# => m.keys.first.class = #{m.keys.first.class}"
> # => m.keys.first.class = String
> --------------------------^^^^^^^
> i expected Symbol...
> (clearly that's your line 123 :
> key.kind_of?(Symbol) ? key.to_s : key)
>
> because of ordering ?
>
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