Syntax: atoms

Atoms are the most basic elements of expressions. The simplest atoms are identifiers or literals. Subexpressions enclosed in reverse quotes or in parentheses, brackets or braces are also categorized syntactically as atoms.

• Identifiers (see below)
• Literals (see below)
• parenthesized-forms
• list-displays
• generator-expressions
• dictionary-displays
• string-conversions

Identifiers (Names) #

An identifier occurring as an atom is a name. See naming-and-binding for documentation of