FYI, this claim about the safety of symbols is actually not true. You can reassign the bindings of sym just as easily as you can reassign the bindings of a variable bound to a.
-- John On Feb 7, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Felix <[email protected]> wrote: > Ismeal VC > check the julia docs at http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/ > for the rest keep asking in this group someone will surely > help you out. > > like look at a symbol as a safe string > when you do something like > > sym = :hello > you will always know sym is hello > > you can also use it as an expression like > http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogramming/#expressions-and-eval > >
