Re: Comments on Ruby code slides from Snakes and Rubies?

[braver]

Um, I guess I wonder what it "means" in terms of syntactic sugar -- the
semantics is clear, and that's the claimed ruby's hallmark.  I don't
yet have a handle on those "symbol" things like :poll ("they're like
strings" --huh?), and what's belongs_to?  I wonder what would be the
closest pythonic syntax...