On Jun 25, 8:36 am, Emeka <emekami...@gmail.com> wrote: > From Steve's post > Symbol objects are subject to garbage collection, but the "namespace" and > "name" strings that identify them are not. Those strings are "interned" via > the "intern" method on java.lang.String.
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