# Extract type name only from parametric type

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extract-type-name-only-from-parametric-type/14188>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, parametric-types\
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extract-type-name-only-from-parametric-type/14188 "2018-08-28T12:55:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extract-type-name-only-from-parametric-type/14188/24 "2018-08-29T12:55:58Z")

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You can mark that piece of code with `@inline` to mark it as inlineable to the compiler, circumventing the (minimal) calling overhead.

What use case do you have for this? What do you want to do with that type?

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