Literals

Supported literals in k# are: strings, characters, numbers.

String

"Single line"

"""
Multi Line
String
"""

Character

'a'

note

k# uses UTF-8 for character and strings

Escape characters

\t	tab
\'	'
\"	"
\r	carriage return
\\	\
\n	new line
\f	form feed
\b	back space

k# also supports unicode escape characters \uxxxx that represent a hexadecimal value from \u0000 to \uFFFF

Numbers

Integers

1  100 -50

Decimals

1.5 0.4 .3 -45.0 1e10

Thousands separator

k# allows to use _ as thousand separator

1_000_000

Expressing numbers in different bases

1. binary

0b1001_0001

2. hexadecimal

0xFF00FF

3. Octal

0o1236

Collections

Lists

[1, 2, 3]

Maps

{"key": value, "key": value}

Set

#[1, 2, 4, 5]

Tuples

They are expressions followed by ,

1, 2

With list and sets you must surround the tuple with parenthesis

[(1, 2), (3, 4)]