struct Symbol

Overview

A symbol is a constant that is identified by a name without you having to give it a numeric value.

:hello
:welcome
:"123"
:"symbol with spaces"

See Symbol literals in the language reference.

Internally a symbol is represented as an Int32, so it's very efficient.

You can't dynamically create symbols. When you compile your program, each symbol gets assigned a unique number.

Included Modules

Defined in:

bencoding/bencode.cr

Instance Method Summary

Instance methods inherited from class Object

bencode(builder : Bencoding::Builder)
bencode : String bencode

Constructor methods inherited from class Object

bdecode(io : IO) : self
bdecode(string : String) : self bdecode

Instance Method Detail

def bencode(builder : Bencoding::Builder) #

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