Ruby Symbol Functions

EditRocket provides the following information on Symbol functions in the Ruby source code builder.

all_symbols - Returns an array of all the symbols currently in Ruby's symbol table.

dclone() -

id2name - Returns the name or string corresponding to sym.

inspect - Returns the representation of sym as a symbol literal.

new -

to_i - Returns an integer that is unique for each symbol within a particular execution of a program.

to_int() - ":nodoc:"

to_s - Returns the name or string corresponding to sym.

to_sym - In general, to_sym returns the Symbol corresponding to an object. As sym is already a symbol, self is returned in this case.

to_yaml( opts = {} ) -

yaml_new( klass, tag, val ) -