> Lähettäjä: James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
> Aihe: Re: symbols vs strings vs ?
>
> On Feb 2, 2005, at 7:53 PM, E S wrote:
>
> > Always use a Symbol rather than a String, except if you
> > need to be able to print the string to file/screen/etc.
>
> Hmm, don't think I agree with that. What it you need to modify its
> contents? What if you want to use some of String's many helper
> methods?
The way I thought of it is that if you need to modify a string,
it's a string that is going to displayed somehow at some point.
For the sake of disambiguity, however, let's amend that to
"Always use a Symbol rather than a constant String..."
> James Edward Gray II
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