symbol

 

 

Overview

The symbol Function converts the specified source {source} argument into a a new Symbol object . Normally this function is used to create a symbol from a source string, since Symbols can be easily used as identifiers and strings are not easily used as identifiers.

Usage

The symbol function is used to coerce an object into a symbol.

 

Syntax

Expression:

(symbol string)

Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:stringString A String argument containing only the characters allowed in a Symbol

Returns:

A Symbol constructed from the string argument


 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

String Symbol Text

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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