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6.3.1 Symbols

The central data type in Malaga is the symbol. It is used for describing syntactic or semantic properties of an allomorph, a word, or a sentence. A symbol is an identifier like ‘Verb’, ‘reflexive’, ‘Sing_1’. The symbols ‘nil’, ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘symbol’, ‘string’, ‘number’, ‘list’, and ‘record’ are predefined and have special meanings.