# TITLE:
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#   Symbol Generation
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# DESCRIPTION:
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#    Symbol generation extensions.
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# AUTHORS:
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#   CREDIT Thomas Sawyer
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# NOTES:
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#   TODO Is Symbol#chomp worth having? Are the any other
#        String methods that Symbols really should have too?

#
class Symbol

  # Successor method for symobol. This simply converts
  # the symbol to a string uses String#succ and then
  # converts it back to a symbol.
  #
  #   :a.succ => :b
  #
  #--
  # In the future I would like this to work more like
  # a simple chracerter dial.
  #++

  def succ
    self.to_s.succ.intern
  end

end


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=begin test

  require 'test/unit'

  class TestSymbol < Test::Unit::TestCase

    def test_succ
      assert_equal( :b, :a.succ )
      assert_equal( :aab, :aaa.succ )
      assert_equal( :"2", :"1".succ )
    end

  end

=end