Jürgen Hötzel <juer...@hoetzel.info> writes: > My Question was about the interning. AFAIK interning shoult only > return a "new" Symbol, when the Symbol wasn't interned already.
We may already be on the same page. I was just pointing out that there aren’t any semantic benefits to that form of iterning for Symbols. The way keywords are interned guarantees that any Keywords which are `=` are the same object and thus `identical?`. Symbols with different metadata being separate objects precludes that. You could have `Symbol/intern` maintain a (weak-reference) cache to the nil-metadata versions of Symbols, but it would *just* a cache. If you had profiling results which showed that maintaining such a cache made compilation <x>% faster, that might be interesting, but otherwise I’m not clear on what the benefit would be. -Marshall -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
