10 Facts About Data type

In computer science and computer programming, a data type is a set of possible values and a set of allowed operations on it.

Data type is a collection or grouping of data values.

In Rust this 32-bit integer Data type is denoted i32 and panics on overflow in debug mode.

For example, a programmer might create a new data type named "complex number" that would include real and imaginary parts, or a color data type represented by three bytes denoting the amounts each of red, green, and blue, and a string representing the color's name.

The type system uses data type information to check correctness of computer programs that access or manipulate the data.

Many programming languages do not have an explicit Boolean Data type, instead using an integer Data type and interpreting 0 as false and other values as true.

An algebraic data type is a possibly recursive sum type of product types.

An abstract data type is a data type that does not specify the concrete representation of the data.

Main non-composite, derived type is the pointer, a data type whose value refers directly to another value stored elsewhere in the computer memory using its address.

Dependent Data type is a Data type whose definition depends on a value.