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Line 77: One of the most novel aspects of Ceylon is its [[type system]]. Ceylon foregoes java's primitive types<ref>{{cite web\|last1=King\|first1=Gavin\|title=Ceylon: Language Design FAQ\|url=http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/faq/language-design/}}</ref> and [[Object type\|boxing]] in favor of a type system composed entirely of first-class objects. ~~More uniquely,~~ Ceylon allows for union and intersection types, in a similar fashion to TypeScript, Whiley and Flow. Union types, written <code>A\|B</code>, allow a variable to have more than one type. The following example shows a Ceylon function which may take either an [[Integer (computer science)\|integer]] or a [[String (computer science)\|string]]:

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