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Does Vala have typedefs?

Does Vala have some capability to do something similar to typedef in C or alias in D? I've checked its sporadic documentation, and couldn't find anything related to this.

Solution

  • Not a typedef as such, but you can extend most types, including the primitives:

    public struct foo : int8 { }

    This will generate a typedef in the generated C, but, strictly speaking, it isn't one in Vala because it isn't a type alias (i.e., int8 and foo are not automatically interconvertible).

    This doesn't work for delegates.