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A literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating-point numbers, and strings, booleans and characters. | A literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating-point numbers, and strings, booleans and characters. | ||
Revision as of 11:08, 15 July 2014
Description
A literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating-point numbers, and strings, booleans and characters.
Literals are often used to initialize variables, for example, in the following, '1' is an IntegerLiteral which is assigned to a new created variable 'a' of data type Integer. And the three letter string in "cat" is a StringLiteral, which is assigned to a new created variable 's' of data type String.
Integer a = 1;
String s = "cat";All OTX Core data types (without the Exception type) provide a literal notation term.
