abc is used a lot across the ruby spec suite, if another test runs before
this spec is loaded and create this symbol dynamically ("abc".to_sym)
the spec will fail.
So it's preferable to use a symbol name that is very unlikely to be
used elsewhere to avoid flakes.
Related issues
Bug #20803: Windows intermittent spec failure - ObjectSpace.memsize_of(:abc)
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Harden the ObjectSpace.memsize_of spec
[Bug #20803]
abcis used a lot across the ruby spec suite, if another test runs beforethis spec is loaded and create this symbol dynamically (
"abc".to_sym)the spec will fail.
So it's preferable to use a symbol name that is very unlikely to be
used elsewhere to avoid flakes.