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6.5  Constants



constant ::= integer-literal
  float-literal
  char-literal
  string-literal
  constr
  false
  true
  []
  ()
  `tag-name


The syntactic class of constants comprises literals from the four base types (integers, floating-point numbers, characters, character strings), and constant constructors from both normal and polymorphic variants, as well as the special constants false, true, [], and (), which behave like constant constructors.


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