Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 27 21:51:46 EDT 2016

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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Also -- the most important thing. :-) What to call these things? We're
> pretty much settled on the semantics and how to create them (A =
> NewType('A', int)) but what should we call types like A when we're
> talking about them? "New types" sounds awkward.

Fake types? Virtual types? Pseudo-types?

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Greg

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