What is the purpose of 'type' in script includes?

[Slava Savitsky]

When you create a new script include, the system automatically adds some code to the Script field as soon as you give your script include a name. The second line from the bottom looks like this:

type: 'your_script_include_name'

What is the purpose of this 'type'? What is the impact of leaving this line out? I can see that many out-of-box script includes do not have it. Thanks.

[Kalaiarasan Pus]

Maybe the answer lies in 'prototype' ....

[andrew_venables · Accepted solution]

It allows you to call obj.type and find out what type the object is 🙂

Leaving it out on new Script Includes shouldn't have an impact unless you write code that expects it

[Slava Savitsky]

Thanks, Andrew. I knew I was missing something very simple.