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Kotlin: Mention Literal::getLiteral() difference from source code

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It appears the Kotlin extractor does not have access to the actual
string representation in the source code, and for most literal types
uses simply the represented value also as `getLiteral` result, see
https://github.com/github/codeql/blob/codeql-cli/v2.15.1/java/kotlin-extractor/src/main/kotlin/KotlinFileExtractor.kt#L4443
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@@ -530,6 +530,9 @@ class Literal extends Expr, @literal {
* Gets a string representation of this literal as it appeared
* in the source code.
*
* For Kotlin the result might not match the exact representation
* used in the source code.
*
* **Important:** Unless a query explicitly wants to check how
* a literal was written in the source code, the predicate
* `getValue()` (or value predicates of subclasses) should be