literals
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A few notable changes include: * The ability to mark all strings literals as frozen by default with consequently large performance increase in string operations.
Also, as was noted by Alan Fox, collection literals are among the least straightforward features to implement.
An arrow is used in function literals and expressions.
Some programming languages also provide other ways to represent special characters in literals, without requiring an escape character (see e.g. delimiter collision ).
Code editor understands callback references within string literals, and provides advanced assistance such as usages search and rename refactoring.
Guarding against unintended changes of literals is one of the reasons I sometime do duplicate literals in tests.