Re: Should let symbols be interned?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I rest my case: you're confusing variables and symbols.
> Symbols are fundamentally nothing more than hash-consed strings.
>
> Symbols are created by the lexer, not by the evaluator, so insertion into
> a big obarray only affects the performance of the lexer/parser.
>
>
>         Stefan


Thanks, I guess I understand a bit more. Just out of curiosity: Does the 
lexer/parser know that it is a let variable at the time the symbol is 
inserted or is that information only available later to the evaluator?