From 56dedfa6eda4afd63a079ca884d864c06793ee0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:52:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Playing around...

---
 hy/compiler/ast27.py | 2 +-
 hy/lang/string.py    | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hy/compiler/ast27.py b/hy/compiler/ast27.py
index c4faa28..9cec38e 100644
--- a/hy/compiler/ast27.py
+++ b/hy/compiler/ast27.py
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ class AST27Converter(object):
 
     def render_bool(self, node):
         """ Render a boolean to AST """
-        thing = "True" if node else "False"
+        thing = "True" if node._val else "False"
         return ast.Name(id=thing, ctx=ast.Load())
 
     def render_symbol(self, node):
diff --git a/hy/lang/string.py b/hy/lang/string.py
index 13d2d29..7f90ece 100644
--- a/hy/lang/string.py
+++ b/hy/lang/string.py
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ else:
 
 
 class HYString(HYObject, _str_type):
-    def __init__(self, string):
-        self += string
+    def __new__(cls, value):
+        obj = _str_type.__new__(cls, value)
+        return obj
 
     def eval(self, ln, *args, **kwargs):
         return str(self)