---
source: crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/spec_tests.rs
expression: invalid.jsonc
---
# Input
```cjs
var foo = new Symbol('foo');
```

# Diagnostics
```
invalid.jsonc:1:11 lint/correctness/noNewSymbol  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Symbol cannot be called as a constructor.
  
  > 1 │ var foo = new Symbol('foo');
      │           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  i Unsafe fix: Remove new.
  
    1 │ var·foo·=·new·Symbol('foo');
      │           ----              

```

# Input
```cjs
var foo = new globalThis.Symbol('foo');
```

# Diagnostics
```
invalid.jsonc:1:11 lint/correctness/noNewSymbol  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Symbol cannot be called as a constructor.
  
  > 1 │ var foo = new globalThis.Symbol('foo');
      │           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  i Unsafe fix: Remove new.
  
    1 │ var·foo·=·new·globalThis.Symbol('foo');
      │           ----                         

```

# Input
```cjs
var foo = new window.Symbol('foo');
```

# Diagnostics
```
invalid.jsonc:1:11 lint/correctness/noNewSymbol  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Symbol cannot be called as a constructor.
  
  > 1 │ var foo = new window.Symbol('foo');
      │           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  i Unsafe fix: Remove new.
  
    1 │ var·foo·=·new·window.Symbol('foo');
      │           ----                     

```

# Input
```cjs
var foo2 = new Symbol();
```

# Diagnostics
```
invalid.jsonc:1:12 lint/correctness/noNewSymbol  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Symbol cannot be called as a constructor.
  
  > 1 │ var foo2 = new Symbol();
      │            ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  i Unsafe fix: Remove new.
  
    1 │ var·foo2·=·new·Symbol();
      │            ----         

```

# Input
```cjs
var lorem = new Symbol() // comment
```

# Diagnostics
```
invalid.jsonc:1:13 lint/correctness/noNewSymbol  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Symbol cannot be called as a constructor.
  
  > 1 │ var lorem = new Symbol() // comment
      │             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  i Unsafe fix: Remove new.
  
    1 │ var·lorem·=·new·Symbol()·//·comment
      │             ----                   

```

# Input
```cjs
var s = /* prefix_cmt */ new /* suffix_cmt */ Symbol() // comment
```

# Diagnostics
```
invalid.jsonc:1:26 lint/correctness/noNewSymbol  FIXABLE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  ! Symbol cannot be called as a constructor.
  
  > 1 │ var s = /* prefix_cmt */ new /* suffix_cmt */ Symbol() // comment
      │                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  
  i Unsafe fix: Remove new.
  
  - var·s·=·/*·prefix_cmt·*/·new·/*·suffix_cmt·*/·Symbol()·//·comment
  + var·s·=·/*·prefix_cmt·*/··/*·suffix_cmt·*/·Symbol()·//·comment
  

```