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What are symbols in the Ruby programming language? How are they different from Strings?

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Posted 2009-03-26T16:50:57Z
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This video on Symbols in Ruby may help. As well as this on Strings and Mutable or Immutable Objects . If you need to know more about defining Strings, this may help: String Delimiters

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