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iolanguage@..., Jeremy Tregunna <jeremy.tregunna@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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@...
>
What I mean is the construction of numbers and strings.
