Re: Under the hood.

On 4-Jun-09, at 10:31 AM, tobeythorn wrote:

> I've been trying to understand how Io works and what goes on under  
> the hood. I'm becoming more and more impressed with it, but am a  
> little confused about a a few things.
>
> What are the statements 123 and "this is a word" and TRUE, FALSE,  
> and NIL? Are they messages, or objects, or messages routed to a  
> special built in hidden object that constructs these objects?

I don't understand what you mean with "123" and "this is a word"  
please clarify that.

However, TRUE, FALSE and NIL are just constants that point at  
singleton objects that are created in the runtime on startup.

Regards,

Jeremy Tregunna
jeremy.tregunna@...