From: Idan Sofer <idan@...>
Date: 2002-12-03T02:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol class for a newbie, I'm just not getting it.  :-(

christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com wrote:

>"some_identifier" vs ":some_identifier"?
>
>I'm just not getting the Symbol type. What does this buy me? When would I want 
>to use it? What is it analogous to in another language?
>  
>

As far as I understand(from using the C API), it is just they way Ruby 
represents method names internally, not something you should really 
worry about, just use it with methods that require a symbol.

In practice, it buys you nothing.