From: Phlip Date: 2008-12-02T11:49:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Different between symbol and string ? Chris Li wrote: > What is exactly different between symbol and string ? Symbol has never > appear in other language. Except for the Smalltalk #symbol and the Perl "bareword" concept... Irritatingly, _all_ languages have an internal "symbol table" concept, but they keep it hidden. Only the best languages expose it as a programmer convenience... -- Phlip