From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2004-03-31T09:08:20+09:00
Subject: How are Symbol objects used

Just saw this over at http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?IwannaLearnRuby and
realised I don't know the answer.

  How are Symbol objects used?
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/rdoc/1.9/classes/Symbol.html
  Why should I use them to create class attributes? --GirtsKalnins


It appears to me that everywhere that you could use a symbol, you could
just as easily use a string. Is there any reason other than aesthetics
that you shouldn't just use Strings everywhere? Are Symbols just a
hangover from an older Ruby version.

Daniel Sheppard
http://jroller.net/page/soxbox 
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