In reply to dave_59:
Yes, that is what I really wanted, to use the type operator. VCS does not support it as recent as their 2014.12 release. I know it’s been in the standard for a long time, and that’s why it’s very annoying.
The conditional is used to determine if something of a certain type should be constructed in the build phase, so I can’t really use an instance-based method such as get_object_type().
Oh well.