Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:05:16AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> BTW, why do we want Lisp-level readonly objects in the first place?
Ben wanted them to be able to give out complex structures without
having to copy them.
Oh, I see. Yes, read-only strings would be very useful, for one. For
example, symbol name strings could be immutable. I guess we'd need it
in Lisp to be able to move some C code to Lisp. That's the only
reason that would make sense.