When describing a string literal, the language used in ECMA-262 is "the string literal" or "the String" followed by the actual string, in quotes with fixed width font. The former only appears in non-normative prose, while the latter appears in algorithm steps. This should read:
From https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-named-groups/commit/92ceba518c2ab0d2811c2efa8248ed1b3f8b5506:
When describing a string literal, the language used in ECMA-262 is "the string literal" or "the String" followed by the actual string, in quotes with fixed width font. The former only appears in non-normative prose, while the latter appears in algorithm steps. This should read: