# Stripping parameter from parametric types

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stripping-parameter-from-parametric-types/8293>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** parametric-types\
**Created:** [January 11, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stripping-parameter-from-parametric-types/8293 "2018-01-11T15:03:46Z")\
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`Base.typename` returns a `Core.TypeName` object. To get the bare type, you still have to use `Base.typename(T).wrapper`. It seems useing `T.name.wrapper` is more straightforward.

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