SingleQuoteString

String literals can be in single quotes

String literals must be in double quotes

In some other programming languages that’s true, but in Java String literals must be in double quotes.

Java

expression involving String literal

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:

CharacterTypeString: The type of a character literal node is String.

Programming Language

Notional Machine

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