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=== Type System ===

One of the most novel aspects of Ceylon is its [[type system]]. Ceylon foregoes javaJava'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. While this may cause boxing overhead in certain situations, it makes the type system more uniform.

Ceylon allows for union and intersection types, in a similar fashion to [[TypeScript]], [[Whiley (programming language)|Whiley]] and Flow.