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Ruby symbols vs strings
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| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :001 > somesymbol = :hithere | |
| => :hithere | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :002 > someothersymbol = :hithere | |
| => :hithere | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :003 > somestring = "hithere" | |
| => "hithere" | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :004 > someotherstring = "hithere" | |
| => "hithere" | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :005 > somesymbol.object_id | |
| => 459688 | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :006 > someothersymbol.object_id | |
| => 459688 | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :007 > somestring.object_id | |
| => 70108038934980 | |
| ruby-1.9.3-preview1 :008 > someotherstring.object_id | |
| => 70108039637960 |
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