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Feature #7854

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New method Symbol[string]

Added by Student (Nathan Zook) about 11 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

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Closed
Target version:
[ruby-core:52267]

Description

I propose a new class method [] on Symbol. If a symbol s already exists such that s.to_s == string, then s is returned. If not, nil is returned.

The inspiration for this method is a question I was asked, and the answer I was given: "Why would you want to turn a tainted string into a symbol?" "I don't--I want to access an existing symbol with tainted data". Symbol[] accesses the symbol table like hash[] accesses the elements of a hash.

I believe that this completely addresses the problems behind tickets #7791 and #7839. I believe that it is a more intuitive solution than my proposal #7795, and I believe that this will also be useful for YAML.safe_load and similar initiatives.


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symbol_lookup.patch (1.83 KB) symbol_lookup.patch phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin), 03/07/2013 12:50 PM
symbol_lookup2.patch (1.36 KB) symbol_lookup2.patch phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin), 03/08/2013 08:48 AM
symbol_lookup3.patch (1.07 KB) symbol_lookup3.patch phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin), 03/09/2013 05:54 PM
symbol_lookup3_warn.patch (1.16 KB) symbol_lookup3_warn.patch phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin), 03/09/2013 05:54 PM

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Related to Ruby master - Feature #7839: Symbol.freeze_symbolsRejectedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)02/13/2013Actions
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