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Literals vs. Extrapolated

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Literals

Something that is being taken literally. (single-quotes)

My favourite color is $myFaveColor

Extrapolatives / Extrapolators / McStrapolashioners

Something that is being interpreted. (double-quotes)

My favourite color is blue

And, Extrapolation with Reassigned Variable - what fun!

Gon' reassign 'myFaveColor' now, you bes' b'lieve me:

My favourite color is my dog Blue

Escaping Characters

Getting problematic quote marks out of strings by using a "\".

My favourite color is I can't do this

Concatenation

Joining strings.

I can't DO this!
Ican'tDO this!
I can't DO this!

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