• seany (4/4) Nov 20 2013 is typedef gone?
• evilrat (4/8) Nov 20 2013 it is replaced with alias.
• Dicebot (2/11) Nov 20 2013 Those are not equivalent. Alias does not create new type.
• bearophile (7/11) Nov 20 2013 There is a Typedef implemented in Phobos. In some cases it works,
• Jesse Phillips (7/11) Nov 20 2013 typedef was removed from the language, there were reasonable

"seany" <seany uni-bonn.de> writes:

is typedef gone?
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/aqsjjrtzfzslcopabqgs forum.dlang.org?page=2

so If I want to define a new type as typedef string[] 
surrealNumber, then it does not work?

"evilrat" <evilrat666 gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 10:49:19 UTC, seany wrote:
 is typedef gone?
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/aqsjjrtzfzslcopabqgs forum.dlang.org?page=2

 so If I want to define a new type as typedef string[] 
 surrealNumber, then it does not work?

it is replaced with alias.
so for ur case this would looks like "alias string[] 
surrealNumber;" or "alias surrealNumber = string[];"

"Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 10:54:31 UTC, evilrat wrote:
 On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 10:49:19 UTC, seany wrote:
 is typedef gone?
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/aqsjjrtzfzslcopabqgs forum.dlang.org?page=2

 so If I want to define a new type as typedef string[] 
 surrealNumber, then it does not work?

 it is replaced with alias.
 so for ur case this would looks like "alias string[] 
 surrealNumber;" or "alias surrealNumber = string[];"

Those are not equivalent. Alias does not create new type.

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

seany:

 is typedef gone?
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/aqsjjrtzfzslcopabqgs forum.dlang.org?page=2

Right.


 so If I want to define a new type as typedef string[] 
 surrealNumber, then it does not work?

There is a Typedef implemented in Phobos. In some cases it works, 
but it's still buggy (search for it in Bugzilla if you want to 
know).

Bye,
bearophile

"Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 10:49:19 UTC, seany wrote:
 is typedef gone?
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/aqsjjrtzfzslcopabqgs forum.dlang.org?page=2

 so If I want to define a new type as typedef string[] 
 surrealNumber, then it does not work?

typedef was removed from the language, there were reasonable 
arguments for the type to act as a "base" or "child" type and 
could not satisfy both.

alias operates as the C typedef does, it just gives another 
symbol to refer to the same thing, generally better for complex 
type names than need simplified.