From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2002-10-17T19:44:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings or symbols?

Philip Mak wrote:
> When working with a record that has various fields represented using a
> hash, do you prefer strings or symbols? Why?

>     person = {
>         :name => "John Doe",
>         :age => 20
>     }

I would probably use symbols, since it is the same few values used many
times.

But wouldn't write code like the above. I would create a class "Person"
instead. Hashes with a fixed set of keys are almost screaming for you to
create a new class.

/Anders
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