Ruby is type unsafe language but it goes a step further and avoids checking dynamically too.

Consider this code

x = :abc
if x == 'abc'
  puts "Symbol and String are two different classes"
else
  puts x.class, 'abc'.class
end

# puts can print a symbol and string alike.
puts x

My Complaints

• I’m new to Ruby. How could Ruby let a Symbol and String compare, in spite of being aware of their types? Like Python, it can throw an error.
• How can puts print a Symbol as good as a String

References

• https://medium.com/rubycademy/symbol-in-ruby-daca5abd4ab2