Is a subclass a new type?

If I subclass a class named Animal and name it Dog, is the class Dog a new type?

Please see this question and the answer I submitted to that question for some background.

>Solution :

Given these 2 definitions

class Animal { }
class Dog: Animal { }

well YES, Animal and Dog have different types and you can check it running this code

type(of: Animal()) == type(of: Dog())

Hope it helps.