From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T07:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol vs String

Hal Fulton wrote:

> Sam Roberts wrote:
>> [...]
>> Anyhow, I moved back to using strings instead of symbols. The need to 
>> create a
>> string and intern it for things that are logically symbols but have a 
>> "-" in
>> them was too painful.
>>
>> That was my experience, anyhow.
> 
> I believe you can do things like :"octet-stream"  -- but I grant
> that is not much better.

And there's also the %s(octet-stream) family.