[swift-evolution] [SE-0011] Re-considering the replacement keyword for "typealias"

[Matthew Johnson]

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> On Dec 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, James Campbell via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> The thing is associated type means nothing to me, it's too technical. Placeholder type I think would be better even if it's only what we called it in the documentation 

Programming languages are technical and it has a very clear meaning in Swift.

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>> On 23 Dec 2015, at 20:35, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
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>>> And what are your feelings about: typestandin, typeplaceholder, or adoptedtype? How would you describe the functionality of these members if you weren't looking for a keyword?
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>> These don’t really speak to me, just because they aren’t the terminology that people use to refer to these.  “standin” and “placeholder” are also pretty vacuous.
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>> -Chris
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