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No. A phantom type is a type whose only use is to communicate a constraint on a type variable, without having a runtime value that corresponds to it.

Typestate is a bit closer: it communicates some property where an operation (typically a method invocation) changes the property and hence the typestate. But there isn't necessarily a mechanism that renders the value in the old typestate inaccessible. When there is, then this indeed requires some linearity/affinity ("consuming the object"), but typestate is something built "on top".



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