On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Johannes Friestad wrote:

> That's where the 'can be' part comes in :)
> The point is that symbols support quicker lookup by their nature.
> Whether they are quicker in practice will depend on the
> implementation. From the timings you give, it looks like symbol lookup
> is implemented by converting the symbol to a string and doing string
> lookup. Which is obviously not quicker :)

i never consider that as an impl - i bet your right though... time for me to
read the source.

cheers.

-a
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