From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-03-17T09:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol vs String

Peter C. Verhage wrote:
> 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?

Some people (such as Guido) dislike mutable strings.
Others (such as Matz, and incidentally me) like them.

Personally, my limited Java experience juggling String and
StringBuffer was enough to convince me that strings should
be mutable.


Hal