Comparative data types

ThinBASIC uses BASIC convention for data type naming, which is incompatible with most non-BASIC languages.

The following table will help you with matching the correct thinBASIC type with the correct type in the targetted language:

Data type	Meaning
INTEGER	16 bit signed integer
LONG	32 bit signed integer
QUAD	64 bit signed integer
BYTE	8 bit unsigned integer
WORD	16 bit unsigned integer
DWORD	32 bit unsigned integer
SINGLE	32 bit floating point
DOUBLE	64 bit floating point
EXTENDED	80 bit floating point
NUMBER	80 bit floating point
STRING	BSTR
ASCIIZ	Null-terminated buffer of characters

With this knowledge, you may translate thinBASIC UDT:

TYPE Point2D
  x AS SINGLE
  y AS SINGLE
END TYPE

...as the following in C:

struct Point2D {
  float x;
  float y;
};

...as the following in Rust:


#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
struct Point2D {
  pub x: f32,
  pub y: f32,
}
}