• A primitive data type whose instances have a unique human-readable form. Symbols can be used as identifiers. In some programming languages, they are called atoms. Uniqueness is enforced by holding symbols in a symbol table. The most common use of symbols by programmers is for performing language reflection (particularly for callbacks). ← Wikipedia

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