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COLOUR:STANDARD
TEXT:00,In the example on the previous page, the atom variable "year" is being
TEXT:16,assigned a value of 1997. The value 1997 is the simplest example of
TEXT:16,an expression, as it is already a value of 1997. The variable
TEXT:16,"copy_of_year" is given a value of what was just placed in "year".
TEXT:16,Euphoria checks to see what is inside "year", and then places that
TEXT:16,value in variable "copy_of_year", which is 1997.
COLOUR:EUPHORIA
TEXT:32,atom letter_of_the_alphabet
TEXT:16,letter_of_the_alphabet = 'C'
COLOUR:STANDARD
TEXT:32,In the example above, the variable, "letter_of_the_alphabet" is being
TEXT:16,assigned a numeric value, but the numeric value is represented here
TEXT:16,as a character between single quotes or '. This character representation
TEXT:16,is evaluated into the numeric ASCII value of the letter C. This means
TEXT:16,"letter_of_the_alphabet" ends up containing a value of 67.

