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- /ˈlɪtərəl/
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literal
- In programming, a literal is a value that is written directly in the code, like the number 42.
Examples
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Alternately, you can declare a kind of object using the all-purpose instantiator var, which may use literals to define internal structures.
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And there are some rules that you can see for evaluating simple literals or conditionals.
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Also we take dummy literal, let's call it Z.
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The building blocks for programs are atoms, literals, and rules.
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So if you have an OR of two literals, that's something like X or Y.
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A literal may be the object of an RDF statement, but not the subject or the predicate.
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Bytes which cannot be included in matches are encoded as literals with a flag bit.
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To complicate matters more, the order of rules in a Prolog program and of subgoals (literals) in rule bodies matters.
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LZ1 algorithms encode their compressed output as a mixture of what are called LITERALS and COPY POINTERS.
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Atoms are elementary propositions (factual statements) that may be true or false; literals are atoms a and their negations not a.
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Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Literal comes from the Latin littera, meaning 'letter', which suggests something 'written exactly'. That's why in computer code a literal is a value written directly in the program and does not change.