Meaning of metatype | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A topotype of a species which is confirmed as belonging to that species by the author who originally described it
2. The type of a type.

Examples

“The Type suffix specifies that this variable will be a metatype and not an object (meaning the implementation class and not an instance of it).”

“You can use a variable reference to a type (a metatype) to instantiate that type, but you can't just append parentheses to a variable reference: […]”

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