Re: Why no schema alias?

On 13 Aug 2012 at 10:31, Jay Michael wrote:

      type LSTRING = STRING ;

t3.pas:8: warning: missing string capacity -- assuming 255

 Is there some other syntax to creating an alias of a schema type?

 On a related note, when I tried

      type LSTRING( Capacity : INTEGER ) = STRING( Capacity ) ; I

got t3.pas:9: error: duplicate field `Capacity'

on the attempted type declaration, and again each time I used the new type name. I tried "STRING( LSTRING.Capacity )" and "STRING( .Capacity )". No improvement.

      type LSTRING( N : INTEGER ) = STRING( N ) ;

compiled, and worked almost as well as a true alias. It wouldn't let me pass a string literal as the actual argument to a "const x : LSTRING" parameter.

Const Len = 1024; Type LString = String (Len);

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