A little more work on symbology draft

Author: dmiller

_drafts/2025-02-14-symbolic-of-what.md

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 ## Introduction 
 
-I remember trying to figure out symbols when I first learned Lisp.  My predecessor langguage (Fortran, Basic, Pascal) had not prepared me.  (You might guess from that list that my first encounter was some years ago.)  I was in good shape with symbols across multiple dialects of Lisp over the years, though certainly there was non-trivial variation. 
+I remember trying to figure out symbols when I first learned Lisp.  
+My predecessor languages (Fortran, Basic, Pascal) had not prepared me.  
+(You might guess from that list that my first encounter was some years ago.)  
+I was in good shape with symbols across multiple dialects of Lisp over the years, 
+though certainly there was non-trivial variation. 
 
-Clojure forced yet another re-calibration.  And my recent work on ClojureCLR.Next -- namespaces, the Lisp reader, and the parsing phase of the compiler -- has forced me to really dig in on symbols. 
+Clojure forced yet another re-calibration.  
+Symbols are a simple construct, but are given meaning by a complex web of interactions
+among the Lisp reader, namespaces, the Clojure compiler and the Clojure runtime.
+I hope to document here where meaning arises.
+
+
+
+## Background
+
+One should go the documentation.
+
+- [Learn Clojure -Syntax: Symbols and idents](https://www.clojure.org/guides/learn/syntax#_symbols_and_idents)
+- [ The Reader: Reader forms: Symbols](https://clojure.org/reference/reader#_symbols)
+- [Data Structures - Symbols](https://clojure.org/reference/data_structures#Symbols)
+
+
+Apparently that is not enough for some.
 
 - [The Relationship Between Clojure Functions, Symbols, Vars, and Namespaces](https://8thlight.com/insights/the-relationship-between-clojure-functions-symbols-vars-and-namespaces) by Aaron Lahey.  (Kudos for the Oxford comma.)
 - [What are symbols in Clojure?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/j3b5hc/what_are_symbols_in_clojure/?rdt=63497)
 - [Explain Clojure Symbols](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175920/explain-clojure-symbols)
 
-https://www.clojure.org/guides/learn/syntax#_symbols_and_idents
+The first article is especially releveant. 
+
+So much for preparation.
+
+# Naked symbolism
+
+The `Symbol` data structure is relatively simple -- it has an optional namespace and a name, both strings.
+
 
-https://clojure.org/reference/reader#_symbols
 
-https://clojure.org/reference/data_structures#Symbols