Strings

Strings are delimited with single quotes.

message = 'Hello, Lumen!'
println message

Concatenation

Use .. to join strings (or a string and another value) together:

name = 'Ryan'
text = 'Hello, ' .. name

println text

No apostrophes inside strings

Because a single quote (') is the string delimiter, you can’t put a literal apostrophe inside a string — the tokenizer would read it as the end of the string. There’s no escape sequence for this yet, so the convention used in the examples is to substitute a backtick where an apostrophe would go:

print 'What`s your name? '

This is printed exactly as written — the backtick is not converted to an apostrophe, it’s just a visual stand-in the source code uses to avoid breaking the string literal. Keep this in mind if you’re generating output that should read naturally; there is currently no way to produce a real ' character inside a string.