From: Student Jr <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-08T15:27:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol.defined?

It's not just rails. Rails happens to be a hotbed of bad programming 
style to be sure, but the utility of allowing users to specify symbols 
is substantial.  Allowing them to create symbols is a memory leak & 
therefore a DOS vulnerability.  Thus the idea.

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