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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Famous quotes containing the word support:
“The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)