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7. Type aliases Is there any other programming language that ever thought of this awesome feature?? Um. To name a few: C has typedef; Go has type; Haskell ha

• dbaupp 13y ago
  As far as I can tell, that Ceylon feature is actually equivalent to `type` in Haskell, not `newtype`.
• Uchikoma 13y ago
  And Scala as another JVM language.
  • yareally 13y ago
    Kotlin, Ceylon's close JVM cousin, is going to eventually add them as well. http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2012/01/the-road-ahead/ http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2012/01/the-road-ahead/
    • dodyg 13y ago
      Kotlin has changed so much that you can't really rely on that 2012 road map.
      • yareally 13y ago
        One of their developers mentioned a few months ago that type aliases were still an upcoming feature[1], though I do agree with your statement in general. [1] http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/08/kotlin-m6-is-here/#comment-9023 http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/08/kotlin-m6-is-here/#...
• finnw 13y ago
  More importantly, Java's main rival C# has an (incomplete) version of this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664765(v=vs.71).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664765(v=vs.71).as...
• pepve 13y ago
  I think that's a sarcastic stab at Java, not a real question by the author.
• StefanKarpinski 13y ago
  Yes, Julia also has type aliases [1]. This is a pretty obvious feature when you have parametric types. The article feels a bit like the author has pretty limited experience with other languages besides Java prior to trying Ceylon. [1] http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/types/#type-aliases http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/types/#type-alias...