Re: Make type respect __name and add rawtype

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 22:23, frank@kastenholz.org <frank@kastenholz.org> wrote:
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> The Principle of Least Astonishment leads one to the position that type() ought not change in a way that is not backwardly compatible. One could make “newtype()” or, perhaps, have type() return two values (one of the existing values plus, optionally,  the __name field from the meta table)
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> That said, I do like the idea in principle & have done hacks similar to those described
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In Ravi I added a new function that does this. I agree that leaving
the current type() function unchanged is better.

Regards