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string literal comparison table

Subject	have example	occur	be part of	has definition	have purpose	have type	is a subtopic of	have value	is a synonym of	is a kind of	return	perform
literal				A value that appears explicitly in a program			Literals			symbol
object creation expression		in a context where a value is required	an expression	An expression that creates a new object	to create a new object	that is the type of its result	Objects	called its result, or its return value		expression	a value from its computation	a computation specified by 0 or more operators
string literal	"Hello world!" (created at compile time)	in a context where a value is required	an expression	A string of characters between double quotation marks	to create a new object	that is the type of its result	Strings	called its result, or its return value	literal string	object creation expression	a value from its computation	a computation specified by 0 or more operators

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