Syntax
set type = anyObject.staticTypeOf();
SemanticsReturns the type of any object it has had at compile-time. To get the type the object has at run-time use the typeOf() Operation. typeOf() and staticTypeOf() may return the same type, though.
SubstitutablestypeCan be any variable or object attribute having the type String. 
anyObjectCan be any object.
Examples

Assume you have the following class structure:

A type Customer derives from a type Person and adds an additional attribute.

Now assume further you have an object of each class (aPerson and aCustomer) and the following action script:

set aPerson = aCustomer;
set staticTypeOfaPerson = aPerson.staticTypeOf();
set typeOfaPerson = aPerson.typeOf();

typeOfaPerson will be Customer, staticTypeOfaPerson will be Person, which is the type the object had originally been created with.

Find below a list of all Bridge Base Types together with their type string as returned by typeOf() and staticTypeOf().

Bridge Base TypeType String
Anyurn:Base_Types.Any
Arrayurn:Base_Types.Array
Bloburn:Base_Types.Blob
Booleanurn:Base_Types.Boolean
DateTimeurn:Base_Types.DateTime
Floaturn:Base_Types.Float
Integerurn:Base_Types.Integer
Stringurn:Base_Types.String

Other, e.g. model specific, types can be referenced via their path in the containment tree, e.g. a class customer that has been defined in the UML package Services/TypeOperationsService/Classes/Customer would have the following type string:
"urn:Services.TypeOperationsService.Classes.Customer".

Example File (Builder project Basic Modeling/ClassOperation):

<your example path>\Basic Modeling\ClassOperation\uml\typeOperations.xml

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