Types

Bebop has builtin support for the following data types:

Name	Description
bool	A Boolean value, true or false.
byte	An unsigned 8-bit integer. uint8 is an alias.
uint16	An unsigned 16-bit integer.
int16	A signed 16-bit integer.
uint32	An unsigned 32-bit integer.
int32	A signed 32-bit integer.
uint64	An unsigned 64-bit integer.
int64	A signed 64-bit integer.
float32	A 32-bit IEEE single-precision floating point number.
float64	A 64-bit IEEE double-precision floating point number.
string	A length-prefixed UTF-8-encoded string.
guid	A GUID.
date	A UTC date / timestamp.
T[]	A length-prefixed array of T values. array[T] is an alias.
map[T1, T2]	A map, as a length-prefixed array of (T1, T2) association pairs.

You may also use user-defined types (enums and other records) as field types.

A string is stored as a length-prefixed array of bytes. All length-prefixes are 32-bit unsigned integers, which means the maximum number of bytes in a string, or entries in an array or map, is about 4 billion (2^32).

A guid is stored as 16 bytes, in Guid.ToByteArray order.

A date is stored as a 64-bit integer amount of “ticks” since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1 of year 1 A.D. in the Gregorian calendar, where a “tick” is 100 nanoseconds.