How to determine the type of a variable in Swift

Question

Is there a function to determine the variable type in Swift? I presume there might be something like like type() in Python.

I\'d like a way to judge if

Answer 1

Someone mentioned this above, but I think it deserves visibility as an answer rather than a comment. You can now simply use type(of: ___):

var red, green, blue: Double
print(type(of: green))

yields

Double