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		bigtunacan on March 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Weird Ruby Well dang... that is interesting and not what I expected. So from this I can infer that it also changes if a symbol is garbage collected now. So has the implementation of Object.send changed in Ruby 2.2+ as well? The latest copy of the code I have looked at is 1.9.3.

djur on March 8, 2015 [–]

Yes, symbols that are garbage collected will get new object IDs if they appear again.

https://gist.github.com/mboeh/83338a4e3a6a77689e22

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