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If you have a distance argument typed as a number, for example, and you pass miles instead of km.

It is equivalent to newtype in haskell.

Another example somebody mentioned here is a logged in user. A function can take a user and we need to always check that the user is logged. Or we could simply create a LoggedUser type and the compiler will complain if we forget.




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