giles 7a94a47e26 datalog: quoted 'atoms' tokenize as strings ...

Quoted atoms with uppercase- or underscore-leading names were
misclassified as variables. `p('Hello World').` flowed through the
tokenizer's "atom" branch and through the parser's string->symbol,
producing a symbol named "Hello World". dl-var? inspects the first
character — "H" is uppercase, so the fact was rejected as non-ground
("expected ground literal").

Tokenizer now emits "string" for any '...' quoted form. Quoted atoms
become opaque string constants — matching how Datalog idiomatically
treats them, and avoiding a per-symbol "quoted" marker that would
have rippled through unification and dl-var?. The trade-off is that
'a' and a are no longer the same value (string vs symbol); for
Datalog this is the safer default.

Updated the existing "quoted atom" tokenize test, added a regression
case for an uppercase-named quoted atom, and a parse-level test that
verifies the AST. Conformance 269/269.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-11 08:39:24 +00:00

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