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On Jun 7, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Simon Fraser <simon.fra...@apple.com> wrote:

> Based on the fact that AtomicString is really a singleton string, I’d like to 
> suggest a new name for this class:
> 
> Stringleton

+1

> 
> Simon
> 
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Brendan Long <s...@brendanlong.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/01/2013 10:09 PM, Glenn Adams wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Before asking this question I had assumed AtomicString was an atomic type 
>> (as in, safe to use in multi-threaded code). InternedString would have been 
>> more obvious, but the biggest problem was that searching for "WebKit 
>> AtomicString" didn't return any results that explained what it was. Now the 
>> top hit has an explanation, so it's not a big deal.
> 
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