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Hi --

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Trans wrote:

>
> On Sep 20, 11:25 ¨Âí¬ ¢Ôèïíᮼôðò®®®Àçíáéì®ãïí¾ ÷òïôåº
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>> Nice idea. After some modification (using method_missing) it could be
>> used as a temporary patch on Ruby 1.8, as in Ruby 1.9 symbols are going
>> to respond to most string-like methods.
>
> I'm curious to see which methods. But I take it just some methods have
> been added, no type of inheritance is going on, right? Ie. If we
> extend String, it won't effect Symbol in any way. Or is there some
> magic going on in 1.9 here?

>> (Symbol.instance_methods(false) &
     String.instance_methods(false)).sort
=> [:<=>, :==, :=~, :[], :capitalize, :casecmp, :downcase, :empty?,
:encoding, :inspect, :intern, :length, :match, :next, :size, :slice,
:succ, :swapcase, :to_s, :to_sym, :upcase]

>> Symbol.ancestors
=> [Symbol, Comparable, Object, Readline, Kernel, BasicObject]
>> String.ancestors
=> [String, Comparable, Object, Readline, Kernel, BasicObject]


David

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