Markus Schaber wrote:
> It's not only about documenting the pure existence of the aliases (which
> was already documented in the table on the datatype TOC page), it's also
> about telling the user which of the names are the ones to avoid, and the
> reasons to do so.
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*blink* Why do any need to be avoided? What you use is a matter of
taste, and your organisation's coding standards. From a purely technical
POV I don't see any reason to avoid using either the canonical type
names or the various aliases.
cheers
andrew
