From: Tom Sawyer Date: 2003-02-04T08:29:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Designing API strings vs symbols? On Monday 03 February 2003 03:56 pm, Eric Hodel wrote: > 'foo bar baz'.intern # => :foo bar baz what foolishness is this! begots! this boggles my mind. is this good and right? what can i call thus? class Foo attr_accessor 'test me'.intern def initialize self.send('test me='.intern, 2) end end t = Foo.new puts t.send('test me'.intern) that this works, i find irksome. IRK.... -- tom sawyer, aka transami transami@transami.net