.. type:: symbol

  Identifier names, which in essence are quoted strings. They are used to compute lambda closures, e.g. instead of ``({..., 'ident, ... })`` you can write declare a 'symbol' variable foo, compute a value for it, and then create the closure as ``({ ..., foo, ... })``

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  .. seealso:: :type:`closure`, :topic:`types`