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Ah hah, you've discovered how long it's been since I've thought about Ruby performance. One important advantage of symbols versus strings is that Symbol#== i
by inferiorhuman 4y ago
Ah hah, you've discovered how long it's been since I've thought about Ruby performance.
One important advantage of symbols versus strings is that Symbol#== is constant time.
At that point though why not use integer constants?
- knodi123 4y agosyntactic sugar- you don't have to pre-declare them or worry about conflicting values. And occasionally the symbol.to_s method is useful in logging or whatnot. That's pretty much it.