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Syntax: typeof (value) => INT

Takes any MOO value and returns an integer representing the type of value.

The result is the same as the initial value of one of these built-in variables: INT, FLOAT, STR, LIST, MAP, OBJ, or ERR, BOOL, MAP, WAIF, ANON.

Thus, one usually writes code like this:

if (typeof(x) == LIST) ...

and not like this:

if (typeof(x) == 3) ...

because the former is much more readable than the latter.