| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2018-07-18.

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# Method lfun::`symbol()

Method `symbol

  `mixed `symbol()`
  `mixed `symbol()`

Description

  Variable retrieval callback (aka "getter").

Note

  Note that the `symbol` in the name can be any symbol.

Note

  This is not a true LFUN, since it is even more low level!

Note

  This function WILL be called even by inheriting programs when they attempt to access the variable named `symbol`.

See also

  lfun::`->symbol=() , lfun::`->()