[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FC001, attributes as strings vs symbols

[Phil Dibowitz < >]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:01:17PM -0400, Jay Feldblum wrote:
> Phil,
> 
> That's correct. Under the hood, it's all strings.
> 
> The symbol and method syntaxes are just a small bit of sugar over the
> underlying string syntax. But all of the node attribute keys are kept as
> strings internally. And all of the methods that fetch keys or iterate over
> the elements give the keys as strings, not as symbols (and certainly not as
> methods).

Right. And I think that's a pretty good reason for the best practice to be
"always use strings unless you have a reason to do otherwise."

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