Atoms

Atom's are data type literals. Tele borrows the orginal Lisp syntax for atoms with a little bit of extra.

They look like this:

'foo

Since it is common for autocomplete to wrap single quotes when making an atom, a surrounding quote is also supported:

'foo'

Keep in mind that two single quotes will not work with spaces as it does in Erlang.

You can't do this:

'foo bar'

This is because the Tele tokenizer uses spaces or newlines to delimit the end of the atom in the case when only one single quote is used.

However, there is a special syntax to support this case:

#'foo bar'

TODO: Don't support this case?

One can always do this:

binary_to_atom("foo bar")

Booleans

Atom's are also how booleans are represented. Simply use these atoms:

'true
'false