Re: how to do typedef's ?

[Felix Klock <felix_klock_ii at mac dot com>]

From the Kawa documentation:
 - Syntax: define-alias variable lvalue
     Define VARIABLE as an alias for LVALUE.  In other words, makes it
     so that `(location VARIABLE)' is equivalent to `(location LVALUE)'.
     This works both top-level and inside a function.

I have to say, I never would have thought of Types as being L-values's. 
 I mean, it really seems to me like Kawa is conflating two concepts 
that really don't go together...

But, since the code is already going to be Kawa specific (and in its 
own seperate file to boot), I can cope with some aesthetic ugliness in 
it.

 Thanks!

-Felix

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:23 AM, Per Bothner wrote:

> Felix Klock wrote:
> > So would this qualify as a bug?  Or am I not generating type aliases 
> > in a correct manner?  I was using define's to do this type [ha ha] of 
> > thing a year ago, but maybe things have changed since then...
> Try using define-alias instead of define.
>
> I haven't done any testing to see if method fields in
> define-simple-class can be aliases, but it is is
> *supposed* go work.
> --
> 	--Per Bothner
> per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/per/