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Expressions

Expressions are the base unit of the milho language, and there are some types an expression can be.

• Symbol

  The symbol type is simple defined as a sequence of characters that doesn't starts with (, ), ', ;, -, doesn't starts with a digit, is not the word True, not the word False, and doesn't have a white-space.

  So, things like Menes, mene, mene-123, Number.MAX_INT are valid symbols.

  And things like -mene, ;mksmk, 123.mene aren't valid symbols.

• Number

  The number is a (single or a sequence) of digits that might be preceded by a - to indicate a negative number and may have a / between the digits when representing a fraction.

  So -1, 2, 1/2 are valid numbers.

  And 1.2 and 23-2 aren't, we don't have floating point numbers, don't ask why.

• String

  Strings are expressions that starts with a " and hopefully ends with one too. We can have white-spaces but no new lines, but we might escape it with a \n and other escape sequences.

  "helo", "nice string \n you have there" are valid.

  123"mene" and mene"123" aren't, but be careful, the last example IS a valid symbol.