A literal or "appropriate literal" is the value of any given metadata entity that can be either a hyperlink or a string value (literal). A literal affords a great deal of flexibility and power, but increases complexity. Metadata should as well include an appropriate literal that reflects the base value of the metadata entity. For example, in these fragments: creator = "Public, John Q." creator = " http://authority.org/public-john-q-1234" the first has a value expressed as an appropriate literal whereas the second has a (hypothetical) link to an authority structure. It is not entirely clear what a person or application will find at the end of the link, so the metadata should contain an appropriate literal for simple discovery purposes.
a sequence of characters in a source program that directly represents a value, such as the integer and the string "hello".
Inline text that is some literal value
A string of characters which can be the value of a property.
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"
a character sequence that composes a data item at the source code level
a character that matches itself
a data-item that consists only of the data-item value itself
a data value, such as a string or a number
a data value that appears directly in a program
a direct syntactic representation of an atomic value
a direct syntactic representation of a simple value
a "hard coded" value that doesn't change
an actual constant value stated in the program
an explicit numeric, character, string, or Boolean value not represented by an identifier
an explicit value that is used by a program
an expression that has a constant value
a number or a quoted string
a self-defining constant that can be referred to in a program
a sequence of characters bounded by apostrophes ( ' )
a sequence of characters that is typed in a program to represent a constant value
a string delimited by double quotes
a string of characters which itself represents a data-item
a string or fragment of XML
a string that is contained within double quotation marks "
a typed value that is self-defining
a value of some kind, written in the program
a value that appears directly in your code, and is a constant (unchanging) value within your Flash documents
a value that does not change
a value you explicitly specify in a program
a vlue that can be assigned to a primitive or string variable, or passed as an argument to a method call
a way of writing a value, and should not be confused with the value itself
A character or numeric constant.
An object that can be created by the compiler. A literal can be a number, a character string, a single character, a symbol, or an array. All literals are unique: two literals with the same value refer to the same object. The object created by a literal is read-only: it cannot be changed.
A pure value rather than a named object. 3, 5.6, -8.0 are numerical literals. 'a', 'C' and '\t' are examples of character literals. "Message", "This is a literal" and "\n" are examples of string literals. Note that character literals go in single quotes whereas string literals go in double quotes.
any value other than a URI, such as a name or a subject.
A literal represents a value literally, that is, by means of letters and other characters. A literal is either a numeric literal, an enumeration literal, a character literal, or a string literal.
The basic representation of any integer, floating point, or character value. For example, 3.0 is a double-precision floating point literal, and "a" is a character literal.
A constant value, written at compile-time and read-only at run-time. Literals can be accessed quickly, and are used when modification is not necessary.
A literal character or string is one that represents itself, that is, that can be taken literally (as opposed to a pattern, that represents some other characters). For a metacharacter to regain its literal value (for example, for to mean an asterisk and not ``zero or more characters'') it must be ``quoted''. See quoting and wildcard.
A representation of a value of a particular type, as with integer literals (e.g. 123) or string literals (e.g. "xyzzy").
Characters, letters or strings which are to be taken literally and used as constants rather than identifiers.
The most primitive value type represented in RDF, typically a string of characters. The content of a literal is not interpreted by RDF itself and may contain additional XML markup. Literals are distinguished from Resources in that the RDF model does not permit literals to be the subject of a statement.
A literal is a value that is represented "as is" in your source code. There are four types of Perl literals: Number, Strings, Arrays, and Hashes. Chapter 2 "Numeric and String Literals," shows many examples of literals.
Words, letters, numerals, and special characters that are used exactly as they are written. No variable substitution or interpretation is done on literals. An example is anything contained within quotation marks on a PRINT statement.
A value in a program that is represented by it's actual value rather than a variable or a constant.
A literal is a value input using only numbers (or characters if necessary), rather than references to calculator registers, stored points, etc.
A kind of token, used for the value of a type. Java allows us to specify literals for the primitive types int, double, boolean, and char; and for the reference/class type String.
Constant variable (sounds like an oxymoron).
A fixed numeric or string value. Also called a constant.
A string, a number, or a date which directly represents a constant value. 'XYZ123', '1234' and '6/10/57' are examples of a string literal, a numeric literal and a date literal, respectively.
literal can be a number, character, or a string. For example, in the expression, VAR1 := 'Hello World'; VAR1 is bind variable, and 'Hello World' is literal.
Text with a literal value.