(As the devout Flannery O'Connor said at a Manhattan dinner party when informed that the Eucharist was merely a beautiful symbol, "Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it"). There seems to be little common ground here between the believer and non-believer: if something is a symbol, a story, a drama, one might conclude, it cannot also be true.
psetq of a symbol defined as a symbol macro is treated as if it were a psetf, and multiple-value-setq is treated as if it were a setf of values.
It was a symbol of war as well as peace.
If you are offended by this symbol, don't assume it is a hate symbol.
If function is a symbol, it is coerced to a function as if by finding its functional value in the global environment.
"After all, the emperor is a symbol, it's not as if they really have power.
As George Carlin used to say, "A flag is a symbol, and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded".
The Serena is a symbol of Kabul's new status as an emerging, if risky, destination for daring international travelers.
If it has traditionally been a symbol of Main Street pride, increasingly it's being used as a chic status symbol for upscale retailers like J.Crew and Gilt Groupe, which have created special marketing around American-made goods, the New York Times reported.
A real variable is replaced by symbol '0' if it is less than the median and by symbol '1' if it is greater than or equal to the median.
