Strange behaviour of 'is'

[Erik Max Francis]

Ben C wrote:

> I'm as baffled as you, even more so its implication:

There is no implication whatsoever.  Whether immutable objects are 
recycled by the compiler or not is totally implementation dependent, and 
an irrelevant implementation detail.  Since they can't be mutated, 
whether their identity is shared with other objects in other contexts is 
never significant.

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