Any value expression used in an application – including the names of objects that represent values – must conform to one of the available data types.

Data Types and Objects

Objects that represent values (constants, variables, fields and form fields) have an explicit data type attribute defined in the Object Dictionary. Value expressions that are not defined objects take implicit data types. The data type of an object or expression determines the values that an object or expression can represent and how the software handles the value. The software recognizes nine different data types: