Literal

From Wikinfo

• Literal string or character string is a data type in programming languages to represent text.
• Literal in programming, is a notation for specifying a constant value.
• Literal in logical expressions, e.g., DNFs is a variable or a negated variable.
• Literal in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars is a synonym of terminal symbol (which is used in the formal language "literally", rather than generates a chain of substitutions).
• Literal in data compression is a chunk of input data that are represented "as is" in the compressed data.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Literal" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal, used under the GNU Free Documentation License