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2.6 Literals

A

literal is a data value that appears directly in
a program. The following are all literals:

12 // The number twelve
1.2 // The number one point two
"hello world" // A string of text
'Hi' // Another string
true // A boolean value
false // The other boolean value
/javascript/gi // A "regular expression" literal (for pattern matching)
null // Absence of an object

In

ECMAScript
v3, expressions that serve as array and object literals are also
supported. For example:

{ x:1, y:2 } // An object initializer
[1,2,3,4,5] // An array initializer

Note that these array and object literals have been supported since
JavaScript 1.2 but were not standardized until ECMAScript v3.

Literals are an important part of any programming language, as it is
impossible to write a program without them. The various JavaScript
literals are described in detail in Chapter 3.