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II.7 Types and signatures

The metadata provides mechanisms to both define and reference types. §II.10 describes the metadata associated with a type definition, regardless of whether the type is an interface, class, or value type. The mechanism used to reference types is divided into two parts:

  • A logical description of user-defined types that are referenced, but (typically) not defined in the current module. This is stored in a table in the metadata (§II.22.38).

  • A signature that encodes one or more type references, along with a variety of modifiers. The grammar non-terminal Type describes an individual entry in a signature. The encoding of a signature is specified in §II.23.1.16.