Why you should name types?

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bobbo
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What's the point of giving a name to types?
First, I thought I could use them to build a structure and then create differetn instances... But this is not true.
The For... Each loop will check all instances regardless of the name... Is it normal?

Example:

Open in online IDE
Type SPRITE 
	Field LOCX 
	Field LOCY 
	Field CURRENTFRAME	
	Field MAXFRAME	
End Type 

For temp = 1 To 20

	cats.sprite = New sprite 
	cats\LOCX = Rand(100)
	cats\LOCY = Rand(200)
        cats\CURRENTFRAME= Rand(1,8)-1
	cats\MAXFRAME= 8
		
Next 

For temp = 1 To 20

	zombies.sprite = New sprite 
	zombies\LOCX = Rand(100)
	zombies\LOCY = Rand(200)
        zombies\CURRENTFRAME= Rand(1,18)-1
	zombies\MAXFRAME= 18
		
Next 

For zombies.sprite= Each sprite

        Print zombies\LOCY

Next


This will print both cats and zombies...

And if you try a new name:


For zombies.sprite= Each sprite

        Print zombies\LOCY

Next


It will print all sprite collection again!

I have already found workarounds for this, but don't you think that it is not logic? Each instance of a type should be a different collection.