From: "Peter C. Verhage" <usenet2@...>
Date: 2005-03-17T07:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol vs String

But why do Strings not behave like Symbols? I mean, why aren't all 
Strings immutable? Is this because Symbols will never get garbage 
collected (to make sure they can be used over and over again) and normal 
Strings will? Which might mean that in some cases (lots of text 
processing) immutable Strings would fill up memory?

Regards,

Peter