The currently supported built-in types are integers, floating point numbers, and strings.
Some other data types (e.g., arrays) are supported by library API.
Integer arithmetics and floating-point number arithmetics are available. Some features, for example bit-shift operator or cosine function, are not yet implemented.
Atoms are treated as numbers only if they are unary (i.e., one-argument) atoms.
X = -2, p(345) X = 2.0, p(-3.14e-10)
The following operations are provided by built-in rules. For example, +(3,5,X) (or X=3+5) will be reduced to 8(X) (or X=8).
int(+Float,-Int) - cast float(+Int,-Float) - cast '+'(+Int,+Int,-Int) - integer operation, as well as: -, *, /, mod '+.'(+Float,+Float,-Float) - floating operation, as well as: -., *., /.
Strings (such as "abc") are unary atom names that are distinguished from ordinary symbols (such as 'abc' or just abc).
String literals are treated as strings only if they are unary; otherwise, they are treated as ordinary symbols.
X = "abc" p("abc\\de\"\nf\ g") p([:abc\de" fg:])
The argument in the second example is in C-like format and the argument in the third example is in 'multiline-quoted format', expressing the same string. The literal [::] expresses an empty string ("").
Operations on strings are supported by the library API (string module).