Lukas Renggli <renggli <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Another issue I observed is that Characters in Squeak have an
> inconsistent behavior for #==. For characters with codePoint > 256 the
> identity is not preserved. This gives problems with code that uses #==
> to compare characters, legacy code and code ported from VisualWorks
> (SmaCC for example). In VisualWorks Characters are unique, just like
> Symbols are.
> 
> Lukas
> 


Just for the detail, Characters are unique like SmallIntegers are.
VW use last-two-bits-of-object-pointer trick so that Characters are immediate
values.

Nicolas