Types

General

When you declare a variable, a field or a procedure parameter, you have to give it a type. A type specifies the kind of data that can be stored in that variable, field or parameter.

Syntax

The syntax for types was kept as simple as possible. As a general rule, you always read a type from left to right. For more info, see the pages about pointer and array types.

There are 3 kinds of types:

• class types : built-in types and user defined classes
• pointer types
• array types (and open arrays)