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why don't we have .to_sym_if_exists in ruby? same as erlang has? http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#binary_to_existing_atom-2
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| iex(3)> :erlang.binary_to_existing_atom("foobar", :utf8) | |
| ** (ArgumentError) argument error | |
| :erlang.binary_to_existing_atom("foobar", :utf8) | |
| iex(3)> :foobar | |
| :foobar | |
| iex(4)> :erlang.binary_to_existing_atom("foobar", :utf8) | |
| :foobar |
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