Support
The following programming languages provide support for symbols:
| language | type name(s) | example literal(s) |
| ANSI Common Lisp | symbol, keyword | 'symbol, :keyword |
| Clojure | symbol, keyword | 'symbol, :keyword |
| Ericsson Erlang | atom | sym |
| Objective-C | SEL | @selector(sym) |
| PICAXE BASIC | symbol | symbol let name = variable |
| Prolog | atom, symbol | sym |
| Ruby | Symbol | :sym or :'sym' |
| Scala | scala.Symbol | 'symbol |
| Scheme | symbol | sym |
| Smalltalk | Symbol | #sym or #'sym' |
| SML/NJ | Atom.atom |
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