Type aliases
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With type aliases, we can give a alias to other type. It’s ideal for giving a name to function types like (String) -> Boolean
or generic type like Pair<Person, Person>
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Type aliases support generics. An alias can replace a type with generics and an alias can be generics.
Syntax
- typealias alias-name = existing-type
Remarks
Type aliases is a feature of the compiler. Nothing is added in the generated code for the JVM. All aliases will be replaced by the real type.
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