On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 12:50:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
It's an alias, but what it's aliased to is a built-in type.
A *slice* of a built-in type *with qualifiers*.The only way to simplify that description is to call it "syntactic sugar". "Built-in type" to describe the entire thing is only a half-truth.
