From: Bryan Dunsmore <dunsmoreb@...>
Date: 2012-01-02T07:05:24+09:00
Subject: Re: noob question regarding strings

Linus Phan wrote in post #1039089:
> Aren't "variable" and "s" variables and not strings?

No as they do not reference another object.  You can tell they are 
strings because they are surrounded by double-quotes (").

> They are placeholders holding the string, which is the "" part right?

Maybe this helps much?

    string = "3"
    => "3"

    "string"
    => "string"

> I don't see where the literal is. :/

The literal is just the string by itself:

    "string" # this is a string literal

A regular string would be the string a variable references:

    var = "string"
    => "string"    # this is the string referenced by `var`

    "string"
    => "string" # this is just a string by itself, a string literal

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