_.type(variable)

[russplaysguitar]

There are so many places in Underscore that have to check multiple types in order to determine what type a variable really is. For instance, some variables pass both isStruct() and isObject(), or isArray() and isXmlDoc(). This is compounded by the fact that Railo 4 and CF10 don't respond the same.

It would be great to replace all of those weird logical statements with clearer statements using _.type().

_.type() should return a string. Possible values:

• simpleValue (boolean, string or numeric)
• array
• struct
• object
• query
• xml
• function (closure, custom function, or anonymous function)

_.type() should return the same values in both cfml engines.