Core Types in Olivine

text

Text is just that, text. You string a line of characters together and wrap them in a pair of double-quotes. In fact, in most languages this type is called string. Here is an example of text:

"Hello World!"

whole number

Whole numbers are numbers without fractions. They can be positive or negative but cannot have a decimal point.

list

A list is a type that contains multiple instances of some other type. All the items in the list must be the same type. Here is a list of text for example:

[
   "First item"
   "Second item"
   "Third item"
]

Lists can also be expressed on a single line using a comma separator, for example:

[ "First item", "Second item", "Third item" ]