From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: changing a symbol name
Date: 
Message-ID: <barmar-F2ED67.21203414102004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>
In article <·················@juno.com>, Jeff Sandys <·······@juno.com> 
wrote:

> Symbols are also called atoms, they are suppose to be immutable. 

That's a silly answer, since symbols are *not* immutable.  They have a 
number of attributes that you can change: the value cell, the function 
cell, the package, and the property list.  The name is the only 
attribute that you can't change.

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Barry Margolin, ······@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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