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Subject: Re: Is there any place to talk about language features?
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
> More differences:
>
>  - non-class types 
>    typedef const char* String = NULL; 

Referring to `char*` or `const char*` as "string" or "String" is IMHO a
bad idea.  A `char*` value is not a string.  It may or may not be a
pointer to a string.

> and we could have
>
> typedef enum  { NONE, A, B } E = NONE;

In both cases, do you intend the initializer to apply to the typedef,
and not to the original type?  
Currently a typedef does not create a new type; it merely
creates a new name for an existing type.  (Admittedly "typedef" isn't
the best name for this feature; "typealias" might have been better.)

Introducing a semantic difference between a name defined by a typedef
and the name of the original type would be a substantial language
change.

Please provide some context when posting a followup.  See most of the
articles here for examples.

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