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 |
Read more about this topic: Symbol (programming)
Famous quotes containing the word support:
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing—that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“[They] hired a large house as a receptacle for gentlewomen, who either had no fortunes, or so little that it would not support them. For these they made the most comfortable institution [and] provided [them] with all conveniences for rural amusements, a library, musical instruments, and implements for various works.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“I make this direct statement to the American people that there is far less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we acquiesce in their defeat, submit tamely to an Axis victory, and wait our turn to be the object of attack in another war later on.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)