From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-15T22:54:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why was the "Symbol is a String"-idea dropped?

On 5/15/07, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
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> But then what you want are not symbols, but true immutable strings. By that
> I mean: some object where I can write 10MB of binary dump. If I want to add
> one character to the end of it, then I create another object containing
> 10MB+1byte of binary dump, and the old 10MB object is garbage-collected.
But of course we have immutable strings already :)))

class IString < String
   def initialize str
     super(str)
     freeze
   end
end

HTIOI (Hope this is of interest ;)
>
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Cheers
Robert
You see things; and you say Why?
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
-- George Bernard Shaw