Re: [Pharo-project] Point name Point class name are not both symbol

Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@...> writes:

I was wondering if it would make sense to have Point name Point class name both returning a symbol and not in one case a symbol and the other a string.

To my understanding, the role of a symbol is to be a speed-optimized identifier (of either a class or method) and #'Point class' is not an identifier but an expression which does not evaluate faster when being a symbol. Also creating too many symbols might harm system performance. I learned that the hard way with Moose, it used to use symbols everywhere and eventually it would take 10 seconds to open autocompletion. So I am always reluctant to make too many symbols. --AA