Re: Why strings? (was Re: GTK problem)

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

>>>>> "O" == Owen Taylor <owt1@cornell.edu> writes:

O> (The terminology is that to ask the server to assign an integer for
O> a string is to "intern" it - beats me why)

The terminology is from Lisp.  More than that, I cannot
explain, since I'm very sketchy on that level of lisp.

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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
God is real, unless declared integer.