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**object**

``typeid``
==========

Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier (TypeID) generator using an atom representation.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(typeid(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-07-25

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static, context_switching_calls``


| **Extends:**
|    ``public`` :ref:`typeid(atom) <typeid/1>`

| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|     :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::compose/3`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::decompose/3`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::from_uuid/3`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::generate/1`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::generate/2`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::generate/3`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::prefix/2`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::suffix/2`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::to_uuid/2`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::valid/1`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::valid_prefix/1`  :ref:`typeid_protocol/0::valid_suffix/1`  

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Public predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Protected predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Private predicates
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(no local declarations; see entity ancestors if any)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`typeid(Representation) <typeid/1>`, :ref:`ids <ids/0>`, :ref:`cuid2 <cuid2/0>`, :ref:`ksuid <ksuid/0>`, :ref:`nanoid <nanoid/0>`, :ref:`snowflakeid <snowflakeid/0>`, :ref:`sqids <sqids/0>`, :ref:`ulid <ulid/0>`, :ref:`uuid <uuid/0>`