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Message: [QUOTE="dblack, post: 4498831"] Hi -- s/RUBY/Ruby/ :-) In Ruby, P[olicy]OLS refers to what does or does not surprise Matz. A little surprise is OK. As Yohanes says, it's part of the learning curve -- and Ruby does have a learning curve, even though it's relatively gentle. The language has to be "allowed" to do things in a way that are not identical to what programmers of other languages expect. Otherwise its existence would serve no purpose. Just out of curiosity: can you describe how symbols would work if they weren't surprising? David -- David A. Black [email]dblack@wobblini.net[/email] "Ruby for Rails", from Manning Publications, coming April 2006! [URL]http://www.manning.com/books/black[/URL] [/QUOTE]