types
- boolean — Scilab Objects, boolean variables and operators & | ~
- functions — Scilab procedures and Scilab objects
- hypermatrices — a Scilab object, N dimensional matrix in Scilab
- Lambda functions — Scilab procedures and Scilab objects
- library — library datatype
- matrices — Scilab objects, matrices in Scilab
- rational — rational fractions
- strings — Scilab Object, character strings
- type — returns the type of a Scilab object
- typename — associates a name to variable type
- typeof — explicit type or overloading code of an object