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Basic Types

EkScript has all the TypeScript basic types with special additions

Boolean
Most basic type. Has only two values: true and false . Denoted by boolean
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let isDone: boolean = false
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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:
Length
Signed
8-bit
char
32-bit
int
64-bit
float
TypeScript
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let decimal: float = 6.0;
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let anyNumber: number = 6.0;   // number is an alias for float
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let hex: int = 0xf00d;
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let binary: int = 0b1010;
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let octal: int = 00744;
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let separate: int = 100_11;
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let big: bigint = 100n;
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let byte: char = 'A'; // u8 only
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You also have bigint
Type-Coercion
The default type for integer based values is int and for floating point values is float. 
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let a = 1;  // i32
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let b = 1.0; // f64
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let c: int = 2;
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let sum = 1 + 2; // i32
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let finalSum = 1 + 2 / 1.5; // f64 (1.0 + 2.0/1.5 = 2.3333..)
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let anotherSum: int = 1 + 2/1.5; // i32
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console.log(anoter)
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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.
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let color: string = 'blue';
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let color = 'red';
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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}.
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let fullName: string = `Bob Bobbington`;
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let age: int = 27;
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let sentence = `Hello, my name is ${fullName}.
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And my age is ${age}
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`;
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The above sentence variable is equivalent to:
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let sentence: string = 'Hello, my name is '
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    + fullName
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    + '.\n\n'
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    + 'I\'ll be'
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    + (age + 1)
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    + ' years old next month';
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