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Return the type of the described option. Note that the option is a flag if it is of type `OptionType::e_BOOL`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balcl_typeinfo.h>`

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xref:BloombergLP/balcl/OptionType/Enum.adoc[OptionType::Enum]
type() const;
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