Built-in Basic Types

The main building blocks of the Ryna type system are what we will call basic types. These represent kinds of data that can be stored. As you might expect, Ryna provides an implementation for some basic types, which are summarized in the following table:

Name	Description
Int	Unbounded size integer
Float	64 bits floating point number
Bool	Value that can be either true or false
String	UTF-8 encoded text
File	Handle that points to a file and allows reading and writing

These types are not much by themselves, but in the following sections we will see how we can combine them in order to make more complex types.