What is the philosophy of literals in programming?

Question

How to explain literals? Why should we use it in C # and ...?

Literals are very common in C #. I want to know the philosophy and history of literals.

Answer 1

Literals are very common in C #. I want to know the philosophy and history of literals.

Oddly enough, I'm on the bus right now, writing a blog entry about this exact topic. Look at my blog in the next couple of weeks for the whole article (assuming I finish it.) But for now, here's the sneak peak.

The main philosophical influence of string literals in programming languages ​​is that they allow the developer to distinguish between the mention and use of the structure of a programming language. For instance:

string alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
Console.WriteLine(alphabet.Length); // 26
Console.WriteLine("alphabet".Length); // 8

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