Atoms
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Atoms — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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Study Notes(6)
LISP Atoms and Data Types
A tour of LISP's core data types, numbers, symbols, strings, characters, and booleans, and how lists combine them into compound structures.
Prolog Syntax and Terms
A tour of Prolog's core data representation: atoms, numbers, variables, compound terms, and the [Head|Tail] list notation.
String and Atom Manipulation
Understand Prolog's distinct atom and string types, how to convert between atoms, strings, numbers, and character/code lists, and the built-ins used to build a…
Unification in Prolog
How Prolog's core matching mechanism works: when two terms unify, how atoms, numbers, variables, and compound terms are compared, and why the occurs check matt…
Atoms in Clojure
Atoms provide Clojure's simplest managed reference type for safe, synchronous, uncoordinated mutable state backed by lock-free compare-and-swap updates.
Atoms and Terms
Understanding Erlang's atom data type and how atoms, numbers, tuples, and lists combine to form Erlang terms.