INCITS/ISO/IEC 11404-1996 (R2007)

Information Technology - Programming Languages, Their Environments and System Software Interfaces - Language - Independent Datatypes (formerly ISO/IEC 11404-1996)

Specifies the nomenclature and shared semantics for a collection of datatypes commonly occurring in programming language and software interfaces, referred to as the Language-Independent (LI) Datatypes. Specifies both primitive datatypes, in the sense of being defined ab initio with reference to other datatypes, and non-primitive datatypes, in the sense of being wholly or partly defined in terms of other datatypes. The specifications of datatypes in this standard is "language independent" in the sense that the datatypes specified are classes of datatypes of which the actual datatypes used in programming languages and other entities requiring the concept datatype are particular instances.