I sure like languages that have symbols as a first class data type, distinct from strings.
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@avibryant@kellan Depends on whether there's syntactic support. 'foo is different from "foo" in Lisp. -
@avibryant@kellan Also, in Common Lisp symbols also have a plist hanging off them so you can annotate names without a separate hashtable. -
@peterseibel@avibryant@kellan plists always struck me as feature creep. -
@noahlt@avibryant@kellan A bit, perhaps. But otherwise you need weak hash tables or something if you want to annotate your names. -
@peterseibel@noahlt@kellan are symbols not strongly held somewhere anyway? -
@avibryant@noahlt@kellan Well, interned symbols are, I suppose. But if you unintern them (as symbols) the plist is attached to the symbol.
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