As the article covers, they are nice syntactically, regardless of those performance considerations. They fill a niche that in my experience actually turns out t

As the article covers, they are nice syntactically, regardless of those performance considerations. They fill a niche that in my experience actually turns out to be more common than string literals (though less common than strings as actual textual data). I haven't written ruby (or any lisps) for awhile, and I miss symbols.