Girvo, I was not saying that within the context of how PHP operates symbols/atoms would be beneficial.
The parent stated, "Sorry, but those are entirely trivial syntactic issues, and not very interesting at that either..."
My point was that symbols/atoms are much more than just a syntactic difference and that they are in fact quite interesting. Chicago Boss, an Erlang framework, takes these ideas to an extreme to push the limits of shared immutable memory on a web server.
I'm not a big fan of the way he trashes pretty much every alternative at the beginning of his description; there are many web frameworks built on many different languages that the market has proved out are sufficiently scalable.
It is however an interesting and different approach that I think we can both agree goes far beyond "trivial syntactic issues".
The parent stated, "Sorry, but those are entirely trivial syntactic issues, and not very interesting at that either..."
My point was that symbols/atoms are much more than just a syntactic difference and that they are in fact quite interesting. Chicago Boss, an Erlang framework, takes these ideas to an extreme to push the limits of shared immutable memory on a web server.
http://www.chicagoboss.org/about.htm
I'm not a big fan of the way he trashes pretty much every alternative at the beginning of his description; there are many web frameworks built on many different languages that the market has proved out are sufficiently scalable.
It is however an interesting and different approach that I think we can both agree goes far beyond "trivial syntactic issues".