Symbol (programming)

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In computer programming, a symbol is a primitive data type whose instances have a unique human-readable form.

Description

Symbols can be used as identifiers.

In some programming languages, they are called atoms.

In the most trivial implementation, they are essentially named integers (e.g. the enumerated type in C).

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