Comment by User23

3 months ago

That’s really not true for Lisp.

Ruby, like its predecessor Perl, is one of the finer examples of Greenspunning and shows a lot of Lisp influence.

Unfortunately I can’t read the actual submission right now due to the cloudflare outage.

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masklinn  3 months ago

> That’s really not true for Lisp.

It's completely true of lisp. Lisp strings are generally mutable (although literal strings may be interned and non-mutable, or even worse mutation of literal strings may be UB). Same for Smalltalk.

  • User23  3 months ago

    I meant more that symbols are a data structure with function and value slots. Last I knew strings, interned (which is also a Lisp reference) or not don't have that.

  • kazinator  3 months ago

    In a Lisp with mutable strings, like Common Lisp, those strings which are symbol names are still mutable.