On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]>wrote:
> Note that in most cases, you want to look up an already interned symbol
> name rather than intern a new one.
>
One of the beautiful things about interning is that it is a pure function,
and so does not provide a communications channel. If one frame could test
whether some other frame somewhere had already interned a given name, you'd
have an unpluggable cross-frame communications channel.
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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