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^title Values
^category types
Values are the built-in object types that all other objects are composed of.
They can be created through *literals*, expressions that evaluate to a value.
All values are *immutable*—once created, they do not change. The number
`3` is always the number `3`. The string `"frozen"` can never have its
character array modified in place.
## Booleans
A boolean value represents truth or falsehood. There are two boolean literals,
`true` and `false`. Their class is [Bool](core/bool.html).
## Numbers
Like other scripting languages, Wren has a single numeric type:
double-precision floating point. Number literals look like you expect coming
from other languages:
:::dart
0
1234
-5678
3.14159
1.0
-12.34
Numbers are instances of the [Num](core/num.html) class.
## Strings
Strings are chunks of text stored as UTF-8. Their class is
[String](core/string.html). String literals are surrounded in double quotes:
:::dart
"hi there"
A handful of escape characters are supported:
:::dart
"\"" // A double quote character.
"\\" // A backslash.
"\a" // Alarm beep. (Who uses this?)
"\b" // Backspace.
"\f" // Formfeed.
"\n" // Newline.
"\r" // Carriage return.
"\t" // Tab.
"\v" // Vertical tab.
A `\u` followed by four hex digits can be used to specify a Unicode code point.
## Ranges
A range is a little object that represents a consecutive range of integers.
They don't have their own dedicated literal syntax. Instead, the number class
implements the `..` and `...` [operators](expressions.html#operators) to create
them:
:::dart
3..8
This creates a range from three to eight, including eight itself. If you want a
half-inclusive range, use `...`:
:::dart
4...6
This creates a range from four to six *not* including six itself. Ranges are
commonly used for [iterating](control-flow.html#for-statements) over a
sequences of numbers, but are useful in other places too. You can pass them to
a [list](lists.html)'s subscript operator to return a subset of the list, for
example:
:::dart
var list = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
var slice = list[1..3]
IO.print(slice) // ["b", "c", "d"]
Their class is [Range](core/range.html)
## Null
Wren has a special value `null`, which is the only instance of the class
[Null](core/null.html). (Note the difference in case.) It functions a bit like
`void` in some languages: it indicates the absence of a value. If you call a
method that doesn't return anything and get its returned value, you get `null`
back.