1.a subdivision of a particular kind of thing;
what type of sculpture do you prefer?
2.a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
a real character
3.(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
4.printed characters;
small type is hard to read
5.a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper;
he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up
6.all of the tokens of the same symbol;
the word `element' contains five different types of character
1.write by means of a keyboard with types;
type the acceptance letter, please
2.identify as belonging to a certain type;
Such people can practically be typed
類型(type)以及類型系統(tǒng)的起源以及研究與發(fā)展是獨(dú)立于OOP的。早在五十年代的FORTRAN語言編譯器實現(xiàn)中,就已經(jīng)采用類型系統(tǒng)作為類型檢查的一種手段。廣義的類型一般被定義為一種約束,也就是一種邏輯公式。