Data Types

All programming languages designate certain “types” of data. This helps the operating system and computer hardware allocate memory based on the type of data that is going to be stored.

Emojicode, being a very type-safe language, takes great care to ensure that data types are understood, by both you and the compiler.

Here are a few basic data types in Emojicode:

🔲 Type Casting

Type casting is a way to determine whether a value is of a given type at run-time and to treat the value as an instance of this type.

🔲 value type

The value is the value to be casted to type:

• If value can be casted to type, then value is returned as type.
• If it can’t, then no value is returned.

Type casting is implemented with the 🔲 statement:

🔲 hello 🔡     💭 Tries to cast txt to 🔡
🔲 world 🐟     💭 Tries to cast a to 🐟