typedef in Java?

[Martin]

Is there anything equivalent to typedef in Java?

[rizzix]

No.

[wtd]

What are you trying to accomplish? Perhaps we can help you find something that's functionally equivalent.

[Martin]

Just trying to shorten some variable declarations is all.

Actually, I was trying to figure out if there was something similar to #define (so I could define a for-each loop in java 1.4.2) and then I realized that I couldn't use typedef either.

[wtd]

The lack of text-substitution macros is a good thing.

The lack of macros is not so good.

[[Gandalf]]

I was going to ask something similar, so there are no structs, or anything like that in Java? I was trying to think of ways other than classes, and read some in my C book...

[wtd]

No, there are not structs in Java. But then, structs in C++ are not really structs either.

[[Gandalf]]

So most (all) organization is done with classes?
Indeed... Just for the record, I was not neglecting to put the ++, it was a C book that I was reading .

[wtd]

[Gandalf] wrote:

So most (all) organization is done with classes?

Yes, all organization is done within the context of a class.

[Martin]

Just make a class and make all of the member variables public. There, you have a C++ struct.

[[Gandalf]]

Sure, but then that would be an improper class, right?

[wtd]

From an OOP standpoint, yes. Very much so.

[Martin]

But really, that's all that C++ structs are - classes with member variables public by default.

[wtd]

Member variables and member functions public by default.