Most basic type. Has only two values: true
and false
. Denoted by boolean
let isDone: boolean = false
This is one of those places where EkScript is different from TypeScript. EkScript supports a wide variety of numbers, including bigint
. You can also _
as a visual separator such as 1_000
. You can declare types from any of the following integer types:
Length | Signed |
8-bit | char |
32-bit | int |
64-bit |
|
let decimal: float = 6.0;let anyNumber: number = 6.0; // number is an alias for floatlet hex: int = 0xf00d;let binary: int = 0b1010;let octal: int = 00744;let separate: int = 100_11;let big: bigint = 100n;let byte: char = 'A'; // u8 only
You also have bigint
The default type for integer based values is int
and for floating point values is float
.
let a = 1; // i32let b = 1.0; // f64let c: int = 2;let sum = 1 + 2; // i32let finalSum = 1 + 2 / 1.5; // f64 (1.0 + 2.0/1.5 = 2.3333..)let anotherSum: int = 1 + 2/1.5; // i32console.log(anoter)
You can use both '
and "
quotes for Strings although the default is '
single quote. String behave similar to JavaScript. The developer can use strings without worry though.
let color: string = 'blue';let color = 'red';
You can also use Template strings, spanning multiple lines. These strings are surrounded by the backtick/backquote(`
) character. Embedded expressions are of the ${expr}
.
let fullName: string = `Bob Bobbington`;let age: int = 27;let sentence = `Hello, my name is ${fullName}.And my age is ${age}`;
The above sentence
variable is equivalent to:
let sentence: string = 'Hello, my name is '+ fullName+ '.\n\n'+ 'I\'ll be'+ (age + 1)+ ' years old next month';