On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:11 pm, David A. Black wrote: > I'm still not convinced that there's any reason to favor having such > things be symbols. My rule of thumb: * Use strings when content matters * Use symbols when identity matters. -- -- Jim Weirich jim / weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)