15.7.1 Literals

A literal (§3.10) denotes a fixed, unchanging value.

The following production from §3.10 is repeated here for convenience:

Literal:

	IntegerLiteral

	FloatingPointLiteral

	BooleanLiteral

	CharacterLiteral

	StringLiteral

	NullLiteral

The type of a literal is determined as follows:

• The type of an integer literal that ends with L or l is long; the type of any other integer literal is int.
• The type of a floating-point literal that ends with F or f is float; the type of any other floating-point literal is double.
• The type of a boolean literal is boolean.
• The type of a character literal is char.
• The type of a string literal is String.
• The type of the null literal null is the null type; its value is the null reference.

Evaluation of a literal always completes normally.