Symbol allSymbols asBag occurrencesOf: #a

allSymbols returns an array of all symbols. The reason it contains #a twice: 
There is OneCharacterSymbols.

- it is initialized with:

        OneCharacterSymbols := (1 to: 256) collect: [ :i | (i - 1) asCharacter 
asSymbol].

the #asSymbol puts the OneCharacterSymbols in the main symbol table already.

Then OneCharacterSymbols is just used by #allSymbols and #selectorsContaining:, 
with the latter having no users.


        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/11241


Besides the bugfix, it removes some one Character symbols that never got used 
and speeds up #allSymbols a little.

And it simplifies the code related to the symbol table a little, which will 
make it easier to improve it later.

        Marcus

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