LiteralString

When passing a literal string as argument to a method, no quotes are needed

String literals always must be surrounded by quotes

String literals always need to be written inside double quotes: print("Hello").

Java

3.10.5 String Literals

15.12 Method Invocation Expressions

Literal String Argument

expression involving a method call with a string literal as argument

The following papers directly or indirectly provide qualitative or quantitative evidence related to this misconception.

Qualitative and quantitative systematic research

542 hand-drawn expression trees from 12 exams in 6 university courses

Diagram mistakes studied:

StringValueWithoutQuotes: String value reported without quotes.

Programming Language

Notional Machine

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