[Cuis-dev] Thoughts about symbols

[Juan Vuletich]

On 12/1/2024 5:14 AM, Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev wrote:
> By the way, SymbolSet>>rehash is broken because it's not aware of 
> UnicodeSymbol.  Look at this lovely failure.
>
> | haha |
> haha := 'abc¢' asUnicodeString asSymbol.
> Symbol rehash.
> Symbol findInterned: haha :: == haha
>
> That's very bad, this is leaking symbols and will lead to problems 
> that are very hard to debug.  Images where this problem manifests are 
> effectively trashed and need to be rebuilt from scratch --- and this 
> is why I would not want to have to deal with this.
>
> IIRC, when I originally wrote the new symbol table code, UnicodeSymbol 
> did not exist.  I find it really hard to believe that I would ignore 
> the presence of UnicodeSymbol.  So, I suspect this issue appeared 
> during integration, and if so this is yet another consequence of 
> duplication.
>
> Andres.

Thanks for the fix. It is now at GitHub.

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