[Python-Dev] Adding NewType() to PEP 484

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> We discussed this over dinner at PyCon, some ideas we came up with:
>
> - Dependent types, harking back to a similar concept in Ada
> (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Type_System#Derived_types)
> which in that language is also spelled with "new".
>
> - New type
>
> - Distinguished Type
>
> - Distinguished Subtype
>
> - Distinguished Type Alias
>
> - Distinguished Alias
>
> - BoatyMcBoatType

Some more suggestions:

- Cloned Type (or Type Clone)

- Copied Type (or Type Copy)

- Named Type

- Renamed Type

- Twin Type

- Wrapped Type

- Doppelganger Type (not serious)

--Chris