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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.