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Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Literals

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6	6	== List Literals ==
7		List contents comma separated, collection [] delimited.
	7	Dynamically sized heterogenous content data structures.
	8
	9	List contents are comma separated, collection is [] delimited.
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9	11	Empty list is []
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20	22	}}}
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22		== Map/Dictionary Literals ==
23		Key and value colon separated, each entry comma separated, collection {} delimited.
	24	== !Map/Dictionary Literals ==
	25	Also known as associative arrays or Dictionaries (Dicts).[[BR]]
	26
	27	Key and value is colon separated, each entry comma separated, collection is {} delimited.
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25	29	empty map is {:}.
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39	43	== Set Literals ==
40		Values comma separated, collection {} delimited.
	44	Unordered hashed collection of unique items optimized for membership testing and set operations.
	45
	46	Values are comma separated, collection is {} delimited.
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42	48	Empty set is {}.
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54	60	}}}
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	62
	63	== Array Literals ==
	64	Statically sized homogenous content data structure.
	65
	66	Values are comma separated, collection is [] delimited with an '@' prefix.
	67
	68	Empty array is @[]
	69
	70	e.g
	71	{{{
	72	#!cobra
	73	names = @[ 'mike', 'gary', 'pat', 'bruce', 'paul'] # String[] or Array<of String>
	74	heads = @[3,1,1,1,1] # int[] or Array <of int>
	75	heads[4] = 3
	76
	77	}}}
	78
	79	Lists are probably easier to use and more flexible but for some purposes arrays have better performance.
56	80
57	81	== Numeric Literals ==
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96	120	}}}
97	121
	122	== String Literals ==
	123
	124	See [wiki:Strings]
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