Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > It's understandable that Java didn't originally have a typedef, > because all types had short enough names anyway. But generics changed > that in a big way, and it baffles me that some form of typedef wasn't > added soon afterwards.
Java's opposition to typedef seems to be something fundamental and philosophical, although I don't exactly understand what. What people do then is they define classes and interfaces as typedefs, which is even worse. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list