Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net>:
> Tim Peters:
>> > What would the point be? That is, instead of "why not?", why? As to "why
> > not?", there's something about elevating what's basically an optimization
> > hack to a type that makes me squirm.
>> Change the name from 'istr' to 'symbol' and add a mild case of language envy
> and you'll see why ;-)
But in Lisp, symbols and strings really are completely
separate types. That's not the case in Python, and you
still haven't really given a reason why they should be.
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