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3.2 Atoms

The syntax of Pedro atoms fall into four categories:

  1. A lower case letter followed by any sequence consisting of “_” and alphanumeric characters.

    Examples:

              fred, a12, this_is_an_ATOM
    
  2. Any combination of the following set of graphic characters.
              -/+*<=>#@$\^&~`:.?
    

    Examples:

              ==>, :?, -:-
    
  3. Any sequence of characters enclosed by single quotes. The character “\” indicates an escape sequence.

    Examples:

              'Fred', 'it\'s', '\n'
    
  4. ; [] and the open-close parenthesis pair