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by ravi-delia 1534 days ago
Interned strings are fine if you don't have mutable strings, but for one Ruby does have mutable strings and two it's nice having that syntactic sugar! Makes it clear that some value is something programmer-written, or at least programmer endorsed. I don't use python much but I do wish there was an alternative syntax for strings I only plan on using like symbols.