I just noticed that typeof(:true) == Bool. I was expecting it to be Symbol.

I am fine with that, but was expecting that eval(symbol("true")) == true, 
but the actual symbol("true") (as opposed to :true) does not mean anything.

This seems akin to the fact that typeof(:1) == Int.

My question is why are literals mapping directly to values, and not being 
able to symbolised? No doubt there is a very deep reason for this! I can't 
yet see why :true can't be a symbol that relates to a true literal.

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