Re: Why strings? (was Re: GTK problem)
- From: Alan Shutko <ats acm org>
- To: gtk-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: Why strings? (was Re: GTK problem)
- Date: 07 Apr 1998 21:51:33 -0500
>>>>> "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.
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
God is real, unless declared integer.
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