Hallo, Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
- Can anyone else help me with a concise summary of other string/Pd
issues I haven't thought of?
Not really, but if you consider symbols as a kind of immutable string, then this is not uncommon as a string-like type in programming languages. It even seems to have some advantages, as this text about Lua's strings hints at: http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2005/06/lua-and-unique-strings/ In Pd, garbage collection of unused symbols is missing, though.
But beware, I'm no language design expert at all.
Ciao