What is the difference between <Literal> and <Object> in a Visual Studio snippet?

Question

I've read the documentation on <Literal> and <Object>, and I understand that Literal is for values defined by the snippet, and Object is for values defined outside the snippet.

I also see that Object has an additional element, Type, which contains the type of variable that the declaration expects. I don't know how this element affects the resulting code though.

What is the functional difference between Literal and Object declarations, from the perspective of the person using the snippet?

Answer 1

Functionally it's the same as the Literal type but it has an additional type constraint.