Gecko simply calls these “Atoms”. StringAtom? AtomString? Simon
On Jun 1, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com> wrote: > > > You guys obviously never wrote any Lisp code. > > Lets not play this game. When I met Maciej he was the maintainer of one of > the most popular Scheme implementations, if I remember correctly. > > Sorry, I forgot to add a smiley... :) > > Seriously, if "Atomic" isn't jargon, Intern isn't either. In any case, I > don't particularly care either way. Once you learn its function, you forget > about the name. But the name did throw me, since I asked myself "what makes > this more 'atomic' than String, synchronicity wise"? I'm sure I'm not the > only one who wondered about this. > > My reason for suggesting "Interned..." was simply because that was how > Ryosuke chose to characterize it as being different from String.
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