13 Jul
2002
13 Jul
'02
7:49 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:34:19AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
The warm fuzzy feeling that you have a real symbol type :-)
Doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling at all. A symbol type is just another compiler implementation detail IMO. Strings are natural to designate identifiers.
Making interned strings a type was just idle speculation, don't take it too seriously... Oren