From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2012-01-02T06:02:19+09:00
Subject: Re: noob question regarding strings

A string literal is anything in double quotes written in your program.

variable = "This is a string literal"

variable.class would return 'String', and so it's a string. But it's
not a _litearl_, it's just a string. The literal is the "" side.