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

It’s not excatly what you do in Pascal, but you can use the using-directive. Have a look here on how to use it

Example:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using MyList = Dummy2.CompleXList;

namespace Dummy2
{
    public class Person 
    {
    }

    public class CompleXList : List<Person> 
    { 
    }


    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            MyList l1 = new MyList();
        }
    }
}