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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Symbols and immutability
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felix winkelmann |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Symbols and immutability |
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:12 +0200 |
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
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> When using ->string on a symbol and calling a destructive string
> procedure on the result, you mutate the original symbol everywhere it's
> used. After that, the mutated symbol is not eq? to the same symbol
> when made afresh.
This is of course a bug. ->string should copy the string, as does
symbol->string.
cheers,
felix