Kendall Clark wrote: > Symbols would be a pretty picayune addition to the language, but the > Ruby folks seem to get v. good mileage out of them for > metaprogramming,
Because Ruby strings are mutable, you can't use them as symbols the way you can in Python. The languages are different enough in this area that you can't transfer experience directly from one to the other. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
