Syntax

From the Tutorial:

Jelly uses its own 256-byte code page. Most of the characters in it are allocated for built-in atoms, but some of them have special semantics.

For now, this is just a list of Jelly syntax characters. An explanation will be added later.

Literals

Literal digits together are not added individually, but as a single number. 23 is the nilad 23. Use spaces to separate tokens 2 3 for 2, then 3.

Symbol	Description
	Token separator.
0	The literal 0.
1	The literal 1.
2	The literal 2.
3	The literal 3.
4	The literal 4.
5	The literal 5.
6	The literal 6.
7	The literal 7.
8	The literal 8.
9	The literal 9.

String literals

The following is a simple description of string literals. A more complete description can be found in the tutorial.

Symbol	Description	Syntax
“	Begins a string literal, and separates a list of strings inside a string literal.	“12“34”
”	Terminates a regular string or a list of strings. Without “, a character literal.	“1234”
»	Terminates a dictionary-compressed string.	“1234»
‘	Terminates a code-page index list. Jelly's version of ord().	“12“34‘
’	Terminates a base-250 number.	“1234’

Other syntax characters

Symbol	Description	Syntax
<newline>	Starts a new link	<link><newline><line>
ø	Starts a separate niladic chain.	ø<link>
µ	Starts a separate monadic chain.	µ<link>
ð	Starts a separate dyadic chain.	ð<link>
ı	Complex number. Without arguments, 1j.	xıy
ȷ	Decimal number, as in 2e6 for 2000000. Without arguments, 1000.	xȷy
-	Negative number. Without arguments, -1.	-5
.	Decimal number. Without arguments, 0.5.	1.2
[	Begins a list.	[2]
]	Ends a list.	[2]