Boolean

Most basic type. Has only two values: true and false . Denoted by boolean

let isDone: boolean = false

Numbers

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:

let decimal: float = 6.0;
let anyNumber: number = 6.0;   // number is an alias for float
let 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

Type-Coercion

The default type for integer based values is int and for floating point values is float.

let a = 1;  // i32
let b = 1.0; // f64
let c: int = 2;
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let sum = 1 + 2; // i32
let finalSum = 1 + 2 / 1.5; // f64 (1.0 + 2.0/1.5 = 2.3333..)
let anotherSum: int = 1 + 2/1.5; // i32
console.log(anoter)

String

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';

Template strings

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';

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