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It doesn't have to be a full-blown class, I'm happy with

    type UserName string
If I can't have that, I'll probably grumble and see how close Lombok can get me to that. It's gotta be close, right?

>These formats are consumed by humans, but they are definitely not native to us. To some degree written text isn't either, but it's much closer to speaking than any of these formats is.

Humans are wonderful things! We have so many means of expression outside of speaking. Have you ever heard those code audiobooks they tried to make for traveling engineers, or a python spelling bee? I'm sure there's something linguistic going on in written text that I don't fully understand.



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