F.E.L.T.

Functionally Equivalent Language Translation

TYPEOF

(typeof foo)    ; returns a representation of foo as a back-end
                ; specific data type.

(typeof var-name)
(typeof "a string")
(typeof 3.14)

See also INSTANCEOF

This FELT instruction allows you to ask the back-end coder to interrogate the argument and return some representation of the actual type of it.