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* Test symbols for equality

* Find, set, or erase an attribute of a list

* locateLocate the next symbol in a list; insert a symbol in a list; erase or copy an entire list.

* Arithmetic operations (on symbol names).

* Manipulation of symbols; e.g., test if a symbol denotes an integer, or make a symbol local.

* I/O operations

* "generatorsGenerators", which correspond to iterators and filters in functional programming. For example, a generator may accept a list of numbers and produce the list of their squares. Generators could accept suitably designed functions—strictly, the addresses of code of suitably designed functions—as arguments.

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