From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-19T04:51:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Why was the "Symbol is a String"-idea dropped?

On 5/18/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:17:01AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> > > Yes, it's the immutable/immediate thing that symbols have in common
> > > with fixnums and that neither has in common with strings.
> >
> > Frozen strings are immutable.
>
> But not immediate.
>

What about

%f{This is sooo cooooold} << "!"

TypeError: can't modify frozen string
Just an idea.


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