Yawn, some more digging this am, I had tested with a #7004, toss  
that, get the 7051
works. mmm

ok in 3.8 and #7004 we have

  'abc' asWideString = 'abc'.  -> true
'abc' = 'abc' asWideString.  -> false

which is the root of the problem and prevents the like: finding the  
string in the WeakSet.

I see the whole String/WideString/ByteString logic has been rework,  
fixing the problem
which then fixes the asSymbol issue


On 5-Aug-06, at 6:47 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> 'foo' asWideString asSymbol = #foo -> true
> 'foo' asWideString asSymbol class = #foo class -> true

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