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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