kind
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Function
kind — return a value’s type category
Synopsis
kind(val: any) -> string
Description
The kind function returns the category of the type of v as a string,
e.g., “record”, “set”, “primitive”, etc. If v is a type value,
then the type category of the referenced type is returned.
Example:
A primitive value’s kind is “primitive”:
yield kind(this)1
"a"
10.0.0.1Loading...A complex value’s kind is it’s complex type category. Try it on these empty values of various complex types:
yield kind(this){}
[]
|[]|
|{}|
1((int64,string))Loading...A Zed error has kind “error”:
yield kind(1/0)trueLoading...A Zed type’s kind is the kind of the type:
yield kind(this)<{s:string}>Loading...