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Data Types

• Two components:
  • Set of objects in the type (domain of values)
  • Set of applicable operations

• May be determined:
  • Statically (at compile time)
  • Dynamically (at run time)

• A language's data types may be:
  • Built-in
  • Programmer-defined

• A declaration explicitly associates an identifier with a type (and thus representation)