title: Purpose of Scala's Symbol?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/780287/what-are-some-example-use-cases-for-symbol-literals-in-scala">What are some example use cases for symbol literals in Scala?</a>  </p>
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  <p>What's the purpose of Symbol and why does it deserve some special <em>literal</em> syntax e. g. <code>'FooSymbol</code>?</p>