From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2002-05-10T00:22:06+09:00 Subject: Re: [Q] non-alphabetic character in symbol Hi, In message "Re: [Q] non-alphabetic character in symbol" on 02/05/09, kwatch writes: |This means that both 'string to symbol' and 'symbol(or object) to hash-key' |use the same hash-function, isn't it! Yes. It's defined in st.c matz.