[Python-3000] Did I miss anything?

[Greg Ewing]

Kendall Clark wrote:

> Symbols would be a pretty picayune addition to the language, but the  
> Ruby folks seem to get v. good mileage out of them for  
> metaprogramming,

Because Ruby strings are mutable, you can't use
them as symbols the way you can in Python. The
languages are different enough in this area that
you can't transfer experience directly from one
to the other.

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Greg