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String Literal Expression

Has the conventional meaning -- evaluates to a String containing the expressed characters in order. A String is an immutable list of Unicode characters. 

Lexical Regex:
 
"((\\\n) | constChar | non-backslash-or-double-quote)*"

Escaped newlines are not part of the string's value.

 
XML DTD:
 
<!ELEMENT String #PCData>

Where, after processing the Minimal-XML escapes and whitespace rules, the #PCDATA must conform to the above regex, and should be written as it appears in the source text.

 
Java:

The E syntax can be used directly in Java with the same meaning with the following exceptions:

in E translate to Java 
'\$' or '$'
 
'$'
 
'\@' or '@'
 
'@'

escaped newlines

may be discarded (unless Java accepts these. ??)

 
Example:
 
"foo"
 
in Kernel-E:
 
same
 
in XML:
 
<String>foo</String>
 
in Java
 
"foo"

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