Is there a way to tell the type of a value?

[Baron Schwartz]

I'm trying to clarify some type-casting behavior and it would help if I could examine 
the type of certain things: user variables, CURRENT_DATE, expressions like 5+'0'.  Is 
there such a function or operator?  I can't find one.

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