I would agree: the fact that `any` exists but cannot be used like `Any` is pretty confusing.

But I do see that `any` vs. `Any` is semantically very different to `list` vs. `List`.

I suggested the same thing on twitter a few months ago and got pretty universally shot down.

Samuel

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Samuel Colvin

On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 10:49, Thomas Kehrenberg <tmke@posteo.net> wrote:

But wouldn't that be quite confusing because `any` is actually a
function on bools, and not a type?
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