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|   Symbol Method Definitions
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"
|     Change Log
| ============================================================================
| Author       Date       Change 
| sbyrne     19 Sep 89	  Changed to use real method categories.
|
| sbyrne     25 Apr 89	  created.
|
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String variableByteSubclass: #Symbol
       instanceVariableNames: ''
       classVariableNames: ''
       poolDictionaries: ''
       category: nil.

Symbol comment: 
'My instances are unique throughout the Smalltalk system.  My instances 
behave for the most part like strings, except that they print differently,
and I guarantee that any two instances that have the same printed 
representation are in fact the same instance.' !

!Symbol class methodsFor: 'instance creation'!

internCharacter: aCharacter
    | s |
    s _ String new: 1.
    s at: 1 put: aCharacter.
    ^self intern: s
!!



!Symbol methodsFor: 'converting'!

asSymbol
    ^self
!!



!Symbol methodsFor: 'misc'!

species
    ^String
!!



!Symbol methodsFor: 'storing'!

storeOn: aStream
    ('#' , self) printOn: aStream
!!