Why keyword `struct` is used instead of `type` for type definition?

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basically the word “type” is used everywhere in docs and function names like typeof(). So, why use the keyword struct but not type in type definition??

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What’s now mutable struct used to be type. And what is now struct used to be immutable.

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There are many types of types (struct, mutable struct, abstract, primitive, union), only some of which are structs, so it would be misleading to use type to describe structs.

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Also, struct is an established name for this purpose, especially in the ‘C family’ of languages.

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