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Alternative implementation of string interning

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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:34:19AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > The warm fuzzy feeling that you have a real symbol type :-)
> 
> Doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling at all.  A symbol type is just
> another compiler implementation detail IMO.  Strings are natural to
> designate identifiers.

Making interned strings a type was just idle speculation, don't take it 
too seriously...

	Oren

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