[Laszlo-dev] The one thing I really miss from Lisp is symbols

[Henry Minsky]

I was looking at a JSON (www.json.org) specification , and I realized one
thing I miss in
programming languages these days are symbols. JSON is pretty close to an
s-expression except for
the lack of symbols (except for the special cases of 'true', 'false', and
'null').

None of the popular  scripting languages
seem to have symbols. You'd think wth the interest in JSON that people might
start wondering
if there is some way to have built-in interned strings supported by their
language...


-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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