Types and values
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The operations specified in an interface may result in a value and
may take particular values as arguments.
The type of a value must either exist as
a basic type or be specified in IDL.
Basic types
- integers, reals, booleans, enum, string, any
Constructed types
- struct, union, sequence, array, interface
Object references
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Basic types encompass integers, reals, booleans,
enumerations and strings.
There is also a generic type, any,
which allows for checking the actual type dynamically.
Constructed types include record structures (struct),
tagged unions, sequences and arrays.
Interfaces specify object types.
However, a value that identifies an object is always
a reference to the object.
In CORBA 2.0 it is not possible to send objects by value.
As a workaround, one may send records by value and
then locally instantiate an object.