| Lesson
2:
Expressions
Increment
1:
Atom's.
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 Atom's.
Char's,
Number's,
Infinity's,
String's,
Symbol's,
and a large assortment of Other
types involved primarily with
the User Interface are Atom's.
We see many Atom's
in the Quantum session above: Setq,
f,
Vector,
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 Atom's
in Quantum. Every Symbol
has a name (a String),
a value (any Quantum object), and a property list (a Vector). |
