[Nitro] Facets symbol.to_s problem

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On Feb 1, 2:08 pm, "nya... at gmail.com" <nya... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 1:58 am, "George Moschovitis" <george.moschovi... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Tom,
>
> > facets/core/symbol/to_s freezes the generated string, causing a lot of
> > problems in Og, in code like:
>
> > acc << symbol.to_s
> > acc << "..." if ...
>
> > can you please remove the .freeze ? There is a workaround of course
> > "#{symbol}" but it looks uggly!
>
> Why do you need a facet for this?  At least as of Ruby 1.8.5:

  class Symbol
    # Same functionality as before, just a touch more efficient.
    def to_s
      @to_s || (@to_s = id2name)
    end
  end

Not sure why it was being frozen. (Although some people have suggested
getting rid of symbols in RUby 2.0 and replacing them with frozen
strings)

T.