Primitives are a different kind of type than objects created from within Javascript. From the Mozilla API docs: var color1 = new String(“green”); color1 instanceof String; // returns true var color2 = “coral”; color2 instanceof String; // returns false (color2 is not a String object) I can’t find any way to construct primitive types with … Read more
For reference—future Python possibilities: Starting with Python 2.6 you can express binary literals using the prefix 0b or 0B: >>> 0b101111 47 You can also use the new bin function to get the binary representation of a number: >>> bin(173) ‘0b10101101′ Development version of the documentation: What’s New in Python 2.6
It means it’s a decimal literal, as others have said. However, the origins are probably not those suggested elsewhere in this answer. From the C# Annotated Standard (the ECMA version, not the MS version): The decimal suffix is M/m since D/d was already taken by double. Although it has been suggested that M stands for … Read more
Use a duplicated double quote. @”this “”word”” is escaped”; outputs: this “word” is escaped
No, there’s no literal syntax for the empty set. You have to write set().
Because [] and {} are literal syntax. Python can create bytecode just to create the list or dictionary objects: >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(compile(‘[]’, ”, ‘eval’)) 1 0 BUILD_LIST 0 3 RETURN_VALUE >>> dis.dis(compile(‘{}’, ”, ‘eval’)) 1 0 BUILD_MAP 0 3 RETURN_VALUE list() and dict() are separate objects. Their names need to be resolved, the … Read more