On Wednesday 27 June 2007 16:48:44 Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> The cost is a slightly clumsier use of symbols as strings (Symbol.str),
> but my feeling is that the extra safety is worth it.

That is exactly what I did. Also, you cannot pattern match over the Sym.t but 
I believe the OCaml compiler doesn't optimize pattern matches over strings 
anyway.

Incidentally, can we add this to the list of wanted optimizations: O(log n) 
matching of strings, arrays and polymorphic variants.

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