Do symbols need to be EQ?

[Anton Vodonosov]

BTW, you may be interested to know how Clojure handles symbols.

Unlike CL, where symbol is both a textual name, and a slot where 
symbol value may be stored, Clojure separates these concepts.
The slot-holing object is called Var - it is similar to CL symbol.
And sybmols returned by Clojure reader are essentially strings,
qualified with namespace (another string).

Symbols are not reused, Clojure reader creates new instances of them freely.