intern'ed strings and deepcopy()

[Erik Max Francis]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> No it isn't. The idea of symbols (viz interned strings) is their
> uniqueness
> (amongst other things, establishing identity is faster then
> establishing
> string equality). So I don't think the OP's question is unreasonable:
> you
> might well want to deepcopy some container that contains symbols (and
> you'd
> like to preserve their identity).

My point was that if you find yourself wanting to make a truly unique
copy of a string (an immutable object), then there is almost certainly
something wrong with your design.

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