[Gambas-user] In Plain English- A definition of the Datatypes please?

[jbskaggs]

Earlier this week I was given an excellent definition oh Hungarian Convetion
naming ie the h in hObjects.

Could someone either point me to a resource in plain English or explain to
me in plain English the Datatypes?

Integer
Long
Short
Array
etc...

this is what I found on the documentation:

Datatype 	Description 	Default value 	Size in memory
Boolean 	True or false. 	FALSE 	1 byte
Byte 	0...255 	0 	1 byte
Short 	-32.768...+32.767 	0 	2 bytes
Integer 	-2.147.483.648...+2.147.483.647 	0 	4 bytes
Long 	-9.223.372.036.854.775.808...+9.223.372.036.854.775.807 	0 	8 bytes
Single 	Like the float datatype in C. 	0.0 	4 bytes
Float 	Like the double datatype in C. 	0.0 	8 bytes
Date 	Date and time, each stored in an integer. 	NULL 	8 bytes
String 	A variable length string of characters. 	NULL 	4 bytes
Variant 	Any datatype. 	NULL 	12 bytes
Object 	Anonymous reference to any object. 	NULL 	4 bytes
Pointer 	A memory address. 	0 	4 bytes on 32 bits systems,
8 bytes on 64 bits systems. 

For a novice like me I have made assumptions for the past year that turned
out to be wrong and I would like to make sure I grasp what this is saying
and not assume I do.

Thanks
JB
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