Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:37 AM 9/27/00 +0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>Perl should adopt scheme-like symbols, both at the language level
>and at the internals level.

The explanation of this isn't that clear for me. (I have no scheme 
experience at all)

It sounds like a sort of dynamically-created version of C's enum or a 
mutant version of the pseudo-hash stuff in perl 5.6. Is that more or less 
right?

                                        Dan

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