spec: What is the definition of a symbol?

[Basile B.]

On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 21:23:24 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2020 at 21:16:47 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>
>> I'd go for something like that:
>>
>> «A symbol is a declaration. This includes
>
> A symbol is not a declaration. `int x;` is a declaration, but 
> `x` by itself is not.

`int x;` is a variable declaration. Variable declarations are all 
symbols (DSymbol in the compiler). `x` in this case represents 
the symbol name, `int` its type.