In the previous sections you have seen the data types YCP knows about. In most cases you will (and should) assign a certain data type to every variable you declare. However, there might be cases when the type of a variable is not really clear at coding time, e.g. (in some rare cases) if you access the SCR to get some hardware data. While you should try very hard to avoid this situation, there might be cases where you can't.

To solve this problem, you may assign the type any to your variable which makes it accept assignments of any other valid type. However, because variables of type any are highly deprecated in YaST by now, this “feature” will eventually be dropped in the near future.