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:
“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so depreciated that women feel compelled to take a job in order to hold the respect of the community. It is one thing if women work, as many of them must, to help support the family. It is quite another thing—it is destructive of woman’s freedom—if society forces her out of the home and into the labor market in order that she may respect herself and gain the respect of others.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)