Atoms Mapping

Atom is a constant with name, which is also known as Symbol in other languages, such as Ruby.

Atoms in Hamler are imported from Erlang, defined as a primitive type, but have a different syntax from Erlang.

Atoms in Hamler start with a colon :

:ok
:error
:the_1st_Atom
atom("node@127.0.0.1")

Atoms in Erlang:

ok
error
the_1st_Atom
'node@127.0.0.1'