Defining type aliases

Question

One feature of Pascal I found very useful was the ability to name a data type, eg

type  person: record              name: string;              age: int;          end;  var  me: person;  you: person;  etc 

Can you do something similar in C#? I want to be able to do something like

using complexList = List<Tuple<int,string,int>>;  complexList peopleList; anotherList otherList; 

So that if I have to change the definition of the datatype, I can do it in one place.

Does C# support a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible. You can write:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic;  namespace ConsoleApplication12 {     using MyAlias = List<Tuple<int, string, int>>; } 

or, if declared outside the namespace:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic;  using MyAlias = System.Collections.Generic.List<System.Tuple<int, string, int>>;  namespace ConsoleApplication12 { } 

then use it as a type:

MyAlias test = new MyAlias();