For info, look at http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/9251 and the surrounding thread. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu / ruby-lang.org> wro= te: > > Second, that proposal, "Symbol as a subclass of String", is an > abolished feature. =A0Though I can't remember the reason now, > there should be the rationale to thrown it away. =A0You need to > disprove it to make your proposal accepted. > > -- > Nobu Nakada > >