Brandon Benvie wrote:
Another factor I haven't seen mentioned but that I think is important is introducing a new primitive that has no literal form is another rough edge/inconsistency that will be confusing. Having to use a factory to make them makes me want to use `new` with that factory. But using `new` should always return an object from the builtins, ergo Symbols objects (whether wrappers or not) should be usable (either through auto-unwrapping or no primitive form) or some inconsistency or another will be introduced.
Allen's proposal from March, for Symbol and (I think) all scalar value objects, would be for new to throw.
Vector and struct value objects would be mutable if new'ed, immutable copy-semantics value otherwise.
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