From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T11:50:51+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ?

At 11:31 AM +0900 12/29/05, Devin Mullins wrote:
> - That means, with strings, if you say 'foo' 5 times in the code, you're
> creating 5 string objects, whereas with symbols, you're only creating one.

I can understand this as a possible implementation, but I
really wonder about the follow-on statement that I've seen,
saying that this can cause memory leaks.  If I define a
string and then discard it, shouldn't it be GCed?

-r
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