... why not create a new type. As noted by a sibling comment, there are some good reasons to do it. And there's actually very little chance that you, as the de

... why not create a new type. As noted by a sibling comment, there are some good reasons to do it. And there's actually very little chance that you, as the developer, are ever going to explicitly specify that type - there's pretty good type inference. As a rust user, I don't care that it's another type because I don't need to care about it in order to write code. So lots of benefits, very low cost/impact.