From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-09-17T23:00:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie help

unknown wrote:
>> After editing that sentence a couple of times, I completely changed the
>> meaning into something quite confusing.  A symbol *always* refers to a
>> string.  That should read:
> 
> I'm not sure I'd put it that way. A symbol, like a string, can always
> be represented by characters, but I don't think a symbol actually
> refers to a string, any more than the string refers to the symbol. But
> I may be misunderstanding what you mean.
> 

Then where is the error in this diagram:

    "hello"
       ^
       |
       |
   symbol_obj
   id:2545934
   ^   ^   ^
   |   |   |
   s1  s2  s3



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