It is specifying the type of your variable. In script languages variables are usually untyped. In javascript or awk script, for example, you can just writeOriginally Posted by Abda92
but in C, Java, Pascal and the like, variables are given a specific type so that the compiler will know how much memory to allocate for them and what sort of operations can or can't be applied (so that it can warn you if you appear to be doing something silly, like Quzar :-).Code:some_variable = 7.6
This is a declaration in C:
Code:double some_variable;