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4.1.2.1 Overview

The data objects of the language are called terms. A term is either a constant, a variable, or a compound term.

A constant is either a number (integer or floating-point) or an atom. Constants are definite elementary objects, and correspond to proper nouns in natural language.

Variables and compound terms are described in ref-syn-trm-var, and ref-syn-cpt, respectively.

Foreign data types are discussed in the context of library(structs); see lib-structs.


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