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[A character_literal is formed by enclosing a graphic character between two apostrophe characters.]
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character_literal::= 'graphic_character'
NOTES
3
5 A character_literal is an enumeration literal of a character type. See 3.5.2.
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Examples of character literals:
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{00433AI95−00433−01} 'A' '*' ''' ' ' 'L' '[Unicode 1051] ' '[Unicode 923] ' −− Various els. '[Unicode 8734] ' '[Unicode 1488] ' −− Big numbers − infinity and aleph.
5.a
The definitions of the values of literals are in Sections 3 and 4, rather than here, since it requires knowledge of types.