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**object**

``toon(StringRepresentation)``
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* ``StringRepresentation`` - Text representation to be used when decoding TOON strings. Possible values are ``atom`` (default), ``chars``, and ``codes``.


TOON parser and generator. Uses curly terms for parsed TOON objects and dashes for parsed TOON pairs.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(toon(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2025-12-07

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Extends:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`toon(curly,dash,StringRepresentation) <toon/3>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`toon_protocol/0::generate/2`  :ref:`toon_protocol/0::parse/2`  

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Operators
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