In programming languages, literals are textual representations of values in the source code. This is a syntactical concept.
Some examples:
7 # integer literal
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Learn Lua quickly with this short yet comprehensive and friendly script. It's written as both an introduction and a quick reference. It's also a valid Lua script so you can verify that the code does what it says, and learn more by modifying and running this script in your Lua interpreter.
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| -- Two dashes start a one-line comment. | |
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| Adding two ['s and ]'s makes it a | |
| multi-line comment. | |
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| -- 1. Variables and flow control. | |
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