Assertion: symbol | /r/HasProperty | interned
Facets:
value: normally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: A symbol is like an immutable string, but symbols are normally interned, so that two symbols with the same character content are normally eq?.
text: If you read those answers, it seems that the reason a symbol is different than a string is that strings are mutable while symbols are immutable, and symbols are also "interned" – whatever that means.
text: The fact that symbols are interned – i.e. hashed by the language implementation for fast equality comparisons – is also an irrelevant implementation detail.