Literals and Constants

Literals are values like 12, 6.1e4 or true. Every primitive type (boolean and arithmetic) can occur as a literal in an ESDL method. The data type of literals is implicit.

Constants are named values, such as g = 9.81. They are added to a component and declared in the same manner as variables. The Properties editor can be used to assign a value and flag an element as a constant.

EXAMPLE
x = g.abs(); The absolute value of the constant g is assigned to the variable x. out1 = myvar.max(g); or out1 = g.max(myvar); The larger of the values myvar (a variable) and g is assigned to the variable out1. out2 = myvar.min(.04); or out2 = (.04).min(myvar); The smaller of the values myvar and 0.04 is assigned to the variable out2.