Why Any.Type and not AnyObject

It seems to me that it's confusing to have AnyObject, Any but Any.Type when wanting to store a type.
What's the difference in Any and AnyObject and why do t we have AnyType? This trips me up a lot

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James, this is really the wrong list for such questions. I suggest
swift-users.

Regards,

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on Thu Feb 25 2016, James Campbell <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:

It seems to me that it's confusing to have AnyObject, Any but Any.Type when wanting to store a type.
What's the difference in Any and AnyObject and why do t we have AnyType? This trips me up a lot

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-Dave