[squeak-dev] Re: About String vs Symbols

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Wed Jul 30 09:23:56 UTC 2008


Eliot Miranda wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM, stephane ducasse 
> <stephane.ducasse at free.fr <mailto:stephane.ducasse at free.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello
> 
>     I'm reading newspeak spec and I like the idea of immutable strings.
>     Now what does it really bring to us?

Eliot, I read your answer and (like Colin probably) I didn't understand 
if you were speaking about immutable objects in Smalltalk, or of 
immutable strings (as in Java, where you have immutable java.lang.String 
objects and use java.lang.StringBuffer to obtain a restricted kind of 
mutability).

What family does newspeak fall in?

Paolo



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