Presumably, this concern would also apply to associating programmer supplied debug info with symbols
"Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: >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. > > >-- > Cheers, > --MarkM
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