From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T03:47:14+09:00
Subject: Re: No more Symbol < String?

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 03:01:41AM +0900, Kornelius Kalnbach wrote:
> After thinking about it, I really like the idea of "automagically"
> created Symbols by freezing Strings. We have Fixnum<>Bignum behind the
> scenes  (which is only for performance and memory reasons AFAIK), and
> the  Symbol<>String problem is alike.

But Strings as Hash keys are automatically frozen.  This behavior might
create more Symbols than we want (can you garbage-collect Symbols once
they are in the symbol table?).

Paul