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In computer science, a literal is a textual representation (notation) of a value as it is written in source code. [1] [2] Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating-point numbers, and strings, and usually for Booleans and characters; some also have notations for elements of enumerated types and compound values such as arrays, records, and objects.
A snippet of Java code with keywords highlighted in bold blue font. The syntax of Java is the set of rules defining how a Java program is written and interpreted. The syntax is mostly derived from C and C++. Unlike C++, Java has no global functions or variables, but has data members which are also regarded as global variables.
For is used as the reserved word (or keyword) in many programming languages to introduce a for-loop. The term in English dates to ALGOL 58 and was popularized in ALGOL 60 . It is the direct translation of the earlier German für and was used in Superplan (1949–1951) by Heinz Rutishauser .
int The int keyword is used to declare a variable that can hold a 32-bit signed two's complement integer. [5] [6] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type int. [7] [8] interface Used to declare an interface that only contains abstract or default methods, constant (static final) fields and static ...
^l Commonly used for characters like Java's char. ^m int in PHP has the same width as long type in C has on that system. ^n Erlang is dynamically typed. The type identifiers are usually used to specify types of record fields and the argument and return types of functions. [5] ^o When it exceeds one word. [6]
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
Many esoteric programming languages follow the convention that any text not executed by the instruction pointer (e.g., Befunge) or otherwise assigned a meaning (e.g., Brainfuck), is considered a "comment".
CLASS words ideally would be a very short list of data types relevant to a particular application. Common CLASS words might be: NO (number), ID (identifier), TXT (text), AMT (amount), QTY (quantity), FL (flag), CD (code), W (work) and so forth. In practice, the available CLASS words would be a list of less than two dozen terms.