No typedef in C# 2.0

[Matt Gerrans]

Two distorted +'s perhaps. Matt Gerrans

[Rei Miyasaka]

:)

[Giles]

I could see how that would be very useful, and help clean up code readability. Something I take for granted in C++, and don't think about. Personally, I would quite like a preprocessor as well.

[Emilio Garavaglia]

"Interity" or "Integralism"? What's the matter with a type name redefinition for my own use, if it is closed in my own namespace? The (ab)use of type redefinition in Win32 derived from the fact that it was designed in flat namespace environment (plain C). All the consideration about templates and generics are correct, but the idea to alias a frequently used name dosn't semm to me so peregrine. My opinion is that ... they simply forgot it. And we are trying to justify them by "inventing" forcing anyone to use "patterns" also when not the case. And calling this "intrgrity". Did The "goto" history, blamed by zealots and rewed recently, teach anything ?? 2 bugs found. > recompile ... 65534 bugs found. :doh:

[Long Gone]

Good one!:) P.S. – for all you anal retentive folks out there tempted to comment on my spelling or grammar save your energy. I don’t care. Don't shoot! I'm only the piano player messenger. Beatress

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

The thing is though that we ain't supposed to know that they're 32 bits wide.. ;P Good music: In my rosary[^]

[Daniel Grunwald]

It's called using, not typedef: using StringPair = System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<string, string>;

[Alvaro Mendez]

I know about using, but it's only available for the current file. It would need to be repeated in every file you'd want to use StringPair. using is just an alias; it doesn't define a distinct type like typedef does (in C++). Regards, Alvaro

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