In programming languages, literals are textual representations of values in the source code. This is a syntactical concept.
Some examples:
7 # integer literal
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| require "json" | |
| struct = { "a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => [1, 2, 3], "d" => [{ "e" => 3 }, nil, false, true, [], {}] } | |
| source = JSON.dump(struct) | |
| tokens = [] | |
| index = 0 | |
| until source.empty? | |
| tokens << |
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