The Kyma Language for Sound Design, Version 4.5

Other Literals
For more arithmetic operations, mathematical functions, and bit-level operations, see one of the referenced
texts.
Smalltalk constants are called literals. Numbers, symbols, characters, strings, and arrays are all literals.
A single character is prefaced by a dollar sign, for example
$T
Strings of characters are delimited by single quotes, for example,
'this is a string'
You can concatenate two strings by typing a comma between them, for example,
'first half', 'second half'
evaluates to the string
'first half second half'
A symbol is prefaced by a number sign and cannot include any internal blanks, for example,
#thisIsASymbol
You can create a symbol from a string by sending it the message asSymbol, for instance,
'thisIsAString' asSymbol
Two strings of the same characters are not necessarily the same object. However, two symbols with the
same name are actually the same object. Each symbol is unique in the system.
Arrays are enclosed within parentheses and prefaced by a number sign, as in
#(3 5 6 #anArray).
Each object within the array is interpreted as a literal, thus the contents of the array
#(2 $+ 5 #anArray)
would be the number
2
followed by the character
$+
the number
5
and the symbol
#anArray
Leading number and dollar signs are not required within an array literal. For instance, the array defined
earlier could be equivalently written as
#(2 + 5 anArray)
Suppose you wanted to evaluate the expression 2 + 5 before putting it into the array and that anArray
was actually a variable. Then you would need to create the array as in the following example:
| anArray |
anArray := #(a b c).
anotherArray := Array with: 2 + 5 with: anArray.
The value of anotherArray is
#(7 (a b c))
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