Common Type System—Types and Objects

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Common Type System Type Systems Intro § Types and Objects § Type Unification Reference, Value Types § Accessibility, Visibility § Type Members § Subclassing, Polymorphism Styles of Inheritance § Abstract Classes Interfaces § Abstract and Interface? Sealing Types and Methods Runtime Type Checking Namespaces: Organizing Types § Special Types § Generics § Further Reading §

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Types and Objects

The CTS uses abstractions derived from object-oriented (OO) programming environments, impacting both its units of abstraction and instruction set. As noted this type system was designed to be quite malleable and can be made to work underneath nearly any language interface. But this means that when we talk about the CTS, we necessarily do so in terms of classes and objects for representing data and encapsulated operations.