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Re:Ruby Symbols by masklinn on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:39AM (#45967670)
> That’s really not true for Lisp.

It's completely true of lisp. Lisp strings are generally mutable (although literal strings may be interned and non-mutable, or even worse mutation of literal strings may be UB). Same for Smalltalk.

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Re:Ruby Symbols by kazinator on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:40PM (#45971725)
In a Lisp with mutable strings, like Common Lisp, those strings which are symbol names are still mutable.
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Re:Ruby Symbols by User23 on Friday November 21, 2025 @02:05AM (#46001957)
I meant more that symbols are a data structure with function and value slots. Last I knew strings, interned (which is also a Lisp reference) or not don't have that.
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