From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T19:51:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Document

From: "Shannon Fang" <xrfang@hotmail.com>


> 
> Now is the problem makes my brain a mess. When you use t.send(:a), how
> can the interpreter know to map :a to method a??
>

Pretty simple, really: magic.

Do you accept that the interpreter can handle this?

   t.send('a')

It'd be a pretty piss-poor interpreter if it couldn't.  And since
   (:a).to_s == 'a'
the interpreter can also handle t.send(:a)

Cheers,
Gavin