Symbol

Describes the concept of a symbol which is made available to guest code; symbols are attached to intrinsic values, which are typically provided by the outer host system, and are optionally made available to guest code.

Symbol Naming

Symbols always carry a simple String name; this name is exposed at the symbol property. Symbol names are the names at which intrinsics are bound in guest VMs.

Because symbol names are used as actual code symbols, their character set is restricted to valid variable names in each target language. Please only use A-Z, a-z, and 0-9, with the first character as a letter, always. No punctuation or special characters are allowed.

Internal Symbols

Elide supports a concept of "internal" symbols, which are marked at build-time. These symbols are provided to the guest VM during initialization, for the purpose of providing internal module APIs. Once the VM has finished the initialization routine, these symbols are withheld, and then guest code is executed.

A symbol is internal if isInternal returns true. Internal symbols mask or otherwise obfuscate their public symbol value. You can obtain the actual internal symbol name with internalSymbol.

Public Symbols

If a symbol is not marked as "internal," it is considered to be public, in which case it is exposed to guest code at the literal symbol assigned to it.

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