Data type is a way to notifying the operating system about the types of data a variable is going to hold through out it s code journey for example if we mention data as integer like a 1 it means we are notifying system that variable a is going to hold numeric value and in that case system will allocate appropriate space in the same way if we writing a.
Ruby data types.
In ruby you don t explicitly declare a data type before you assign a value.
This is the boolean nature of our existence.
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As mentioned in the previous chapter everything in ruby is an object.
We will discusss the following data types.
In ruby the boolean data type can have one of the two values.
Ruby data types.
The program lists classes that belong to ruby data types.
Ruby uses dynamic typing which means type checking is done at runtime rather than compile time as in languages that use static typing.
Ruby determines the data type from the data stored in the variable.
Assigning the value determines the data type.
Ruby has 8 primary data types and 3 more data types derived from the numeric superclass.
There is a duality built in our world.