Ruby Programming/Reference/Objects/Symbol

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."

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