It depends what you mean by "associating". What do you have in mind?

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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