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The type of ident. Its value will depend on what ident is.
For an object of a user-defined structure, the type is the full name of the structure, e.g. ~test.stool.
For a system identifier object, the type is the type name, e.g. numeric, window, etc.
For a system type identifier (e.g. string), the type is type.
For a user-defined structure, the type is one of the following: structure, gstructure, compound, dbstructure.
This element is maintained by the system and cannot be changed.