Where can I find Atom, String, or List syntax macro?

[round agate]

I find %{}, {}, %, and <<>> in Kernel.SpecialForms.
But I couldn't locate "", '', [], or :.
When I do iex> i [], it says Reference modules List. But there is no [] in List.
Do they come from Erlang? Or do they live in a secret place?

[umbral wren]

AFAIK these cannot be defined like other parts of language simply because these aren't like functions, but terms on their own (or parts of other terms in case of :).

[round agate]

Okay, where can I expect to find them then? And of which part is :?

[umbral wren]

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.14/syntax-reference.html - in syntax reference

[round agate]

I mean, in the code base

[umbral wren]

These are handled in parser

[round agate]

Oh okay

[livid bronze]

here https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/src/elixir_tokenizer.erl
and here https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/src/elixir_parser.yrl
if you feel comfortable enough reading erlang and yecc

some things are constructors/special forms, others are literally syntax

[round agate]

Thanks! I was looking for those files