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by bigtunacan
4119 days ago
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The only problem with Ruby's implementation of symbols was possibility of DoS which is resolved through garbage collection in the latest Ruby. Something that I found a bit ironic about the video linked in the article is at 5 mins 30 secs in; he states, "Why not give the memory address a name that makes sense to a person?" Here is referring to assembly and the abstraction it makes and how this relates to the abstraction that is variables. Symbols are really a cross system immutable memory address abstraction; I don't see how this is a bad thing. |
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