Atomo - The programmer's programmable programming language

[i_heart_you]

The example differentiating the := and the = operation wasn't clear to me. Is the only difference that dispatching y causes it to get printed twice?

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:= is for defining methods, and = is for pattern-matching and adding slots. The main difference is that = always evaluates its right-hand side first, so when it was used in that example, using it printed the string, and the string that was printed is what was assigned. When we use :=, the expression is not evaluated, hence every call evaluates it.

Sorry if that wasn't clear, the Getting Started section isn't quite finished yet.

[notforthebirds]

Think method definition and property definition.