Literals

Versions

[{“Name”:“Java SE 1.0”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 1.1”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 1.2”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 1.3”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 1.4”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 5”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 6”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 7”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 8”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 9 (Early Access)”,“GroupName”:null}]

Introduction

A Java literal is a syntactic element (i.e. something you find in the source code of a Java program) that represents a value. Examples are 1, 0.333F, false, 'X' and "Hello world\n".