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Available for questions involving packaging, writing and using methods, and generally most object oriented techniques. Conversion from modular (routine based) to OOP (object based) is a pet interest of mine. My language experience in this area is (in order of competence) Perl C++ PHP Visual Basic/ASP Java

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Programmer since 1980, web developer since 1998.

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M.S. in Computer Science from New York University

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Object Oriented Programming - C++ Literals

Expert: Marty Landman - 6/1/2009

Question
Hi, I'm confused about literals. From its definition, it seems like every value in C++ are literals, so how about C++ keywords? Are they literals? And how about character escape sequences? How exactly is a literal defined?

Thanks,
confused

Answer
Angela,

A literal is data where a keyword is an instruction. Escape sequences would be literals, unless they are stored in a variable.

Is this clearing things up for you at all?

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