From: Hal Fulton Date: 2012-06-19T08:00:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Symbols and Strings... --047d7b15a8a59a0be104c2c72267 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Silly of me. I not recall this at all, and even believed it was an original idea... Those who cannot remember history are condemned to Google it... Hal On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Eric Hodel wrote: > On Jun 18, 2012, at 15:09, Hal Fulton wrote: > > Hello, all... > > > > A modest proposal here... I think (tentatively) that Symbol should > inherit > > from String, and a symbol should basically be an immutable string. > > > > Reply here and/or on my blog as you see fit: > http://rubyhacker.wordpress.com > > This happened (see thread at [ruby-core:9188]) but was reverted. I can't > think of the proper keywords to find the reason for the reversion. > --047d7b15a8a59a0be104c2c72267 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Silly of me. I not recall this at all, and even believed it was an
origi= nal idea...=A0

Those who cannot remember history are condemned to G= oogle it...

Hal


On Mon, Jun 18= , 2012 at 5:31 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrot= e:
On J= un 18, 2012, at 15:09, Hal Fulton wrote:
> Hello, all...
>
> A modest proposal here... I think (tentatively) that Symbol should inh= erit
> from String, and a symbol should basically be an immutable string.
>
> Reply here and/or on my blog as you see fit: http://rubyhacker.wordpress.com
This happened (see thread at [ruby-core:9188]) but was reverted= . =A0I can't think of the proper keywords to find the reason for the re= version.

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