Atoms
Start Quantum again and reproduce what you see in the Quantum session below.
The smallest objects in Quantum, in a
Read
and
Print
sense, are
atoms.
Char's,
Number's,
Infinity's,
String's,
Symbol's, and a large assortment of
Other
types involved primarily with the
User Interface
are
atoms. We see many
atoms in the Quantum session above:
Setq,
f,
New.Array,
2,
3.14159,
3/4,
cat,
"dog",
#'d',
Map,
Type,
65,
#'A',
"Foo",
Foo,
1.234e+100,
"meow",
#'m',
#'e',
1/3,
0.3333333333,
FALSE,
TRUE, etc.
Symbol's are the most important
atoms in Quantum. Every
Symbol
has a name (a String),
a value (any Quantum object), and a property list (an
Array).
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