to those values. A type may be denoted by a <i>type name</i>, if it has one,
or specified using a <i>type literal</i>, which composes a type from existing types.
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<pre class="ebnf">
Type      = TypeName | TypeLit | "(" Type ")" .
TypeName  = identifier | QualifiedIdent .
TypeLit   = ArrayType | StructType | PointerType | FunctionType | InterfaceType |
	    SliceType | MapType | ChannelType .
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