From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-02-04T00:44:05+09:00
Subject: Re: symbols vs strings vs ?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:22:24 +0900, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:11 pm, David A. Black wrote:
> 
> > I'm still not convinced that there's any reason to favor having such
> > things be symbols.
> 
> My rule of thumb:
> 
> * Use strings when content matters
> * Use symbols when identity matters.

...and that matches mine, too.

-austin
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