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Examples

The following is a simple external representation of a Common Lisp symbol:

this-is-a-symbol

Symbols can contain whitespace (and all other characters):

|This is a symbol with whitespace|

In Common Lisp symbols with a leading colon in their printed representations are keyword symbols. These are interned in the keyword package.

:keyword-symbol

A printed representation of a symbol may include a package name. Two colons are written between the name of the package and the name of the symbol.

package-name::symbol-name

Packages can export symbols. Then only one colon is written between the name of the package and the name of the symbol.

package:exported-symbol

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