Ruby

I can't think any use cases of Kernel.#Symbol, could you tell me the use case?

(Why Kernel.#Symbol makes sense?)

You could make the same argument against String. Why would you use that over #to_s? I can't think of any use cases for that :)

To me, it's really about API consistency. I don't believe you would actually use it frequently, but including it is following the principle of least surprise.

Fwiw. I discovered Symbol did not exist by writing some code to call it, expecting it (since there is String, Array, Hash, etc.) I doubt I'm the only one who's tried calling Symbol, expecting it to exist.

On 2012/10/27 20:12, mame (Yusuke Endoh) wrote:

Issue #6697 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Assignee changed from mame (Yusuke Endoh) to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

In Ruby, it is not a good idea to propose something because of consistency.

I guess this should say:

In Ruby, it is not a good idea to propose something only because of
consistency.

Consistency is good, but (as possibly in this proposal) adding a method
just for consistency, without demonstrating an actual need, isn't Ruby
style. So please show some strong uses cases for this method.

Regards, Martin.