Go - Terminology

Some common terminology used in Programming and specifically in Go.

String literals - string constant formed by concatenating a set of chars

• Raw string literal -- set of chars enclosed between back quotes. Escape chars also ignored
• Interpreted string literal -- set of chars enclosed between double quotes
• Rune literal --  single char enclosed in single quotes like 'a' and '1'
• In Go, a rune is an alias for int32 and represents a single Unicode code point. 
• A rune literal is a character enclosed in single quotes, like 'a', '1' etc. 
• It is used to define a single Unicode character in a program.
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• var letter rune = 'a'   // Represents the character 'a'
• var number rune = '1'   // Represents the character '1'