Add conversion from Symbol to ShortString

The built in Julia method to convert from Symbols to Strings is nonallocating and is a no-op that just reuses the pointer to the interned string, so the conversion is the same as from string.
JuliaString · Mar 30, 2021 · ab85c69 · ab85c69
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diff --git a/src/base.jl b/src/base.jl
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ end
 
 ShortString{T}(s::ShortString{T}) where {T} = s
 
+ShortString(s::Symbol) where {T} = ShortString{T}(String(s))
+
 function ShortString{T}(s::ShortString{S}) where {T, S}
     sz = sizeof(s)
     check_size(T, sz)