# Identifiers and Assignment

In mewl, identifiers just look like mew numbers, so be careful when reading/writing mewl programs.

Some backstory:

While I was designing mewl identifiers, I was confused about identifiers, I wanted something crazy but usable. So I just decided to go with mew, but to distinguish numbers from identifiers, I needed something special . Now, please continue.

### Identifiers/Variables

In mewl, identifiers look something like this -> ~mew , ~mewmew etc.

So basically, Identifiers follow the same syntax as mew numbers but with a leading ~ (tilde) character.

~mew , ~mewmew , ~mewmewmewmewmew , these all are identifiers.

## Assignment

Assignments are little awkward, it'd be easy to understand with examples:

[=mew [+ mew mew]]


This expression assigns 2 to the variable ~mew and this expression [:: ~mew] would print the value of variable ~mew (which is 2 )

If you want to assign something to variable, write the identifier with a leading = (equal sign) without any space(s).

In short, =mew tells the interpreter to evaluate the following expression(s) and store it in variable ~mew.

For example,

[=mewmew [* mewmew mewmew]] would store 9 in a variable which can be accessed via ~mewmew.

I know, it is confusing.

## More examples:

• [=mewmewmew [+ mew mew [* mewmew mewmew]]] would store 6 to a variable which to be accessed via ~mewmewmew

• Another one

[=mewmewmewmewmew [' mew mew mewmew]]
[:: ~mewmewmewmewmew]


it would print 112 to stdout

[Info Note]: Assiging something using =mewmewmewmewmew wouldn't change the meaning of mewmewmewmewmew as a mew number which still is 5