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 <h3 class="section">Symbol Properties</h3>  <p>A symbol may possess any number of <em>symbol properties</em>, which can be used to record miscellaneous information about the symbol. For example, when a symbol has a <code>risky-local-variable</code> property with a non-<code>nil</code> value, that means the variable which the symbol names is a risky file-local variable (see <a href="file-local-variables">File Local Variables</a>). </p> <p>Each symbol’s properties and property values are stored in the symbol’s property list cell (see <a href="symbol-components">Symbol Components</a>), in the form of a property list (see <a href="property-lists">Property Lists</a>). </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="symbol-plists" accesskey="1">Symbol Plists</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Accessing symbol properties. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="standard-properties" accesskey="2">Standard Properties</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Standard meanings of symbol properties. </td>
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