16:40:01beachThanks. The main new idea is to not mention strings or symbols by type at all, and to just map "string" to "symbols" using some client-supplied "symbol table", rather than a hash table.
16:40:38beachThat way, it can be used as an intrinsic library no matter how the target system represents strings and symbols.
16:41:15beachBut I am still amazed why I think of things like this very late. I guess in this case because I put off working on the package system for the longest time.