Bug #10671: Update documentation for literal syntax to reflect the fact that symbols are GC-ed

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: zzak (zzak _)
• Target version: 2.2.0
• ruby -v: 2.2.0
• Backport: 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: DONE

[yihangho (Yihang Ho)]

The existing doc warns that symbols are not GC-ed. However, this is not true anymore for 2.2.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r49056.

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literals.rdoc: Update for symbol literals

• doc/syntax/literals.rdoc (Symbols): now Symbols created by
  interpolation can be garbage collected. patch by Yihang Ho in
  [ruby-core:67194]. [Bug #10671]
  [ci skip]

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: REQUIRED

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: DONE

ruby_2_2 r49375 merged revision(s) 49056.