[plt-scheme] immutable strings vs. uninterned symbols

On Jun  6, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> --- Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Jun  6, Doug Orleans wrote:
> > > Doug Orleans writes:
> > >  > (Are there other differences?  Garbage collection maybe?)
> > > 
> > > The MzScheme manual says that interned symbols are only weakly
> > > held by the internal symbol table, which seems to imply that
> > > uninterned symbols are never garbage collected.
> > 
> > No, it means that the references to the uninterned symbols are not
> > preventing them from being GCed.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> I don't think that uninterned symbols are held in the internal symbol
> table at all... hence "uninterned."

(Yes, mis-read "interned" as "uninterned".  Doug: this doesn't imply
anything on uninterned symbols -- they're collected like any other
objects.)

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