Ambient-Oriented Programming

In AmbientTalk, it is possible to quote an expression. In that case the quoted expression is not evaluated, but literally returned instead.

Quoting and expression is done with the ` operator. Quoting a number or a string results in the same number or string.

>`3 == 3
>>true
>`3 + 8
>>11
>`"text" == "text"
>>true

Quoting an identifer results in a symbol:

>foo
Undefined variable access: foo
>`foo
>>foo

>def o := object: { def m() { 5 } }
>><object:5800647>
>o.m()
>>5
>`(o.m())
>>o.m()