Ruby Programming/Reference/Objects/Symbol
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A Ruby symbol is the internal representation of a name. You construct the symbol for a name by preceding the name with a colon. A particular name will always generate the same symbol, regardless of how that name is used within the program.
:Object :myVariable
Other languages call this process ``interning, and call symbols ``atoms.
