From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T22:29:32+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ?

Malte Milatz <malte__@gmx-topmail.de> writes:

> dblack:
>> Actually, s = :sym doesn't produce a reference to :sym;
>> rather, s has the actual/immediate value :sym. Anyway, the main (obscured)
>> point was that symbols are not references.
>
> My understanding of things so far was that :sym and 3 are immediate values, 
> and after writing
>   a, b = :sym, 3
> a is a reference to :sym and b is a reference to 3.

In the current implementation, no.  It doesn't matter to the
programmer, though.

> Have I been wrong all the time?
>
> Malte
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