Metatype

"Metatype" in a Sentence (2 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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