Glossary?

[email protected] (Garrett Goebel) Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:29:38 -0600

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It is interesting that no one has yet taken the time to start defining the
terms we're using.

For instance what is a literal?

Would everyone agree with the following definition?

A literal is the represention of a constant value. It is important not to
confuse the representation with the value. To illustrate this b1000001,
0101, 0x41, and 64:11 are all literal numeric integer representations of the
value more commonly represented in decimal notation as 65.


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