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instance method

Symbol#intern

sym.intern → sym

static VALUE
sym_to_sym(VALUE sym)
{
    return sym;
}

In general, to_sym returns the Symbol corresponding to an object. As sym is already a symbol, self is returned in this case.

See also #inspect #length #id2name #match also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1