Timeline for What is meant by a primitive data type?
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:53 | comment | added | TheTechGuy | @jk I was out of touch with C++. You are right. Will fix the ans. | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:51 | comment | added | jk. | strings in C++ do not need to be created with new | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:28 | vote | accept | progammer | ||
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:18 | comment | added | TheTechGuy | Addressed your comment int the question itself. Plz see edit. | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:15 | comment | added | John Bode |
@Appy - possibly. C doesn't provide a string data type as such; strings are represented as aggregates of the primitive type char. C++ introduced a proper string data type, but whether or not it's a "primitive" type itself depends on whom you ask. Personally, I would not classify it as such. However, I would classify an old-school BASIC string type as a primitive type, for reasons that are probably completely arbitrary.
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:15 | history | edited | TheTechGuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:08 | comment | added | progammer | Thanks for the answer . Does classification of a datatype as "primitive" depend on the implementation ? Like in C/C++ we store strings as char arrays .But we need to explicitly define them . So if some other language has the same implementation to store a string but provides it implicitly , will the datatype "string" be a primitive in that particular language ? | |
| Mar 14, 2012 at 15:03 | history | answered | TheTechGuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |