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by klibertp
1534 days ago
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No, Ruby has symbols because it was inspired by Smalltalk which has symbols. Of course, Lisp also has symbols, and it was one of the inspirations for Ruby (and Smalltalk), but the idea of representing message sends (ie. method calls) as symbol + arguments comes from Smalltalk. |
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