Lexicon

Type Metadata

Kind: artifact

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:type-metadata

Canonical: Lexicon

Descriptive data about the types of a structure's fields, available for inspection at runtime.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Time Cost and before Undo/Redo.

Category

  • Core Vocabulary

Required by

  • Self-Describing Structures
  • Introspection

Linked from

  • Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
  • Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
  • Core Vocabulary