Atoms

[zak9...@gmail.com]

Elixir documentation as well as "Introducing Elixir" refer to atoms as bits of text that start with a colon, like :hello

However, no where in the documentation is mentioned that any bits of text that start with capital letters are atoms too like Hello

iex(1)> is_atom(Hello)

true

[Waldemar Rachwał]

Found it in other place: http://elixir-lang.org/crash-course.html#atoms

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[Michał Muskała]

Actually every module is an atom in both erlang and elixir. SomeModule is just a syntactic sugar for :'Elixir.SomeModule'

iex(1)> :'Elixir.SomeModule' == SomeModule

true