Symbols

Symbols are objects with a name (usually a unique name), they are one of the most important data structures in Lisp since they are used to provided named variables (see section Variables) and functions (see section Functions).

Function: symbolp object

This function returns t when its argument is a symbol.

• Symbol Syntax: The read syntax of symbols
• Symbol Attributes: The objects stored in a symbol
• Obarrays: Vectors used to store symbols
• Creating Symbols: Allocating new symbols
• Interning: Putting a symbol into an obarray
• Property Lists: Each symbol has a set of properties

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