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It's not new in the some other language worlds, where your approach is also not new - I mean "make-symbol" in Common Lisp... Btw, once a symbol is created, is
by malkia 11y ago
It's not new in the some other language worlds, where your approach is also not new - I mean "make-symbol" in Common Lisp...
Btw, once a symbol is created, is it ever garbage collected? (They are not in Common Lisp for example).
Possibly on page reload (for javascript in browser) they would. But how about long-running javascript code?
- matchu 11y agoOkay, some better phrasing, then: the closure-based approach has been idiomatic for years, but the symbol-based idiom is new. What lessons have folks learned from trying these approaches in other languages? Which is more idiomatic, and why?