# Error with \`show\` for abbreviated type printing

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-show-for-abbreviated-type-printing/62190>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 1, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-show-for-abbreviated-type-printing/62190 "2021-06-01T13:41:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![marius311](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/marius311/32/3953_2.png) [@marius311](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/marius311)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-show-for-abbreviated-type-printing/62190/5 "2021-06-02T09:01:24Z")

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I think this is probably [Dispatching on the result of unwrap\_unionall seems weird?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dispatching-on-the-result-of-unwrap-unionall-seems-weird/25677) and the answer is you want to use the new type aliasing stuff in Julia 1.6 rather than custom overloaded `show`.

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