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Data Types

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Vincent Hanquez edited this page Mar 18, 2017 · 1 revision

Primitive Types

Not to be confused with PrimType

Apart from normal primitive types:

Int
Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64
Word8, Word16, Word32, Word64
Integer, Natural
Double (FP64), Float (FP32)
Char

Also defines those as primitive:

String
Hostname, IPv4, IPv6
UUID
FilePath, FileName

Qualification for primitive types:

Show instance that display the friendly value (e.g. an ipv6 address instead of the ipv6 byte content)
Special Typeable name
Strict & Unpacked (as much as possible)
need to be instance of Hashable, Storable

Composite Types

Array, MutableArray
Unboxed Array (UArray) and Unboxed Mutable Array (MUArray)
Array of Array (ChunkedUArray)
Strict Tuples (Tuple2, Tuple3, ...)