- The primitive data types are used as a variable to pass it to the function and use it inside the code.

- XML is passed to the function to alter the variable passed in the function having the original variable.

- The data types can be assigned with values that has literals are as follows:

var item1:String="ABC";

var item2:Boolean=true;

var item3:Number=12;

var item4:Array=["a","b","c"];

var item5:Object={name:"Actionscript",version:"3.0"};

var item6:XML = <node><child/></node>;