I chose not to recognize implicitly-defined members, except for base, of primitives or user-defined types because I do not want all primitives and user-defined types to be mistaken for collections.
Implicitly-defined members of Objects (including Arrays) are recognized because they are collections.
I made an exception for base because it is useful on any supported type.
I did not distinguish Objects, Arrays, and Exceptions for several reasons:
- They are the same type in AutoHotkey v1. Only their contents differ.
- When AutoHotkey v2’s type system was more similar to v1, its
Type(Value)function also returned"Object"for all of them. - It is useful to know that they are the same type because it reveals how to construct them and what operations are compatible with them.
- They cannot reliably be distinguished. An empty Object and Array are indistinguishable.
- When context makes apparent which is expected, they can still be validated with the help of this library.
- Recognizing Arrays by their contents is very inefficient.