Literals

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.