Re: Simplifying type names

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Jocelyn Paine <popx@pop3.ifs.org.uk> writes:

> Using type-specifiers such as <java.util.Vector> in let-expressions
> and function formal parameter lists and results, is there a way to
> avoid having to write the entire package prefix? Like many other
> Java programmers, some of my package prefixes are quite long -
> e.g. <kb7.mm3.general.Term> - and it would ease writing and readability
> (as long as one ensures there's no ambiguity) if only the class-name
> suffix (<Vector> or <Term>) could be used. Any equivalent of Java's
> 'package' prefix?

You can use define-alias.  See examples in gnu/jemacs/buffer/emacs.scm.

Using define-alias is perhaps more verbose than an import statement,
but much more useful, since it allows class renaming.
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