Re: Properties and readonly objects

Wednesday, 14 April 1999

        sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

...
 >> Another is that you can optimize GC with this kind of
knowledge.
 >> It seems that, since reachability is affected by mutable plists,
 >> you want the plists of immutable objects to be immutable as well.

 Hrvoje> Hmm.  The old "pure" stuff behaved this way for strings.  It
 Hrvoje> took the easy way out for symbols, simply refusing to create
 Hrvoje> pure symbols.

 Can't strings also have plists? 
Of course.  That's why I said that the old stuff behaved this way for
strings; by "this way" I referred to what you stated about immutable
object's plists being immutable as well.

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