1. Core Data Types & Literals

Aergia dynamically determines types at runtime from four base literal formats:

Numbers: Evaluated automatically as integers or floating-point values. Negative numbers are explicitly prefixed with an underscore (e.g., 42, 3.14, _120) to keep the binary subtraction operator separate and unambiguous.
Strings: Wrapped in double quotes ("Hello, Aergia!"). Standard backslash escape sequences are supported natively, and runtime expressions can be dynamically injected via %value% interpolation.
Booleans: Evaluated via numeric truthiness. Expressions or literals yielding 0 are false; any non-zero value evaluates to true.
Supervalues: Used for constraint programming to represent a state of multiple potential values until collapsed.

Examples

# Numbers & Negatives
= positive 42
= negative _42

# String interpolation
= name "Aergia"
= greeting "Welcome to %name%!"

# Declaring a supervalue x constrained between -100 and 100
=? x && >> x _100 << x 100