Type Aliases | Swift Programming Language Tutorial

Type aliases are alternate names given to an existing datatype.

What is a Type aliases

We can define a alias using typealias keyword

Syntax : typealias myAlias = DataType

Type Aliases can be used when you refer to existing datatypes that you want to rename to more appropriate one,


//
//  main.swift
//  Swift Tutorials 2014-15
//  typealias in Swift example
//
//  Created by Code2care on 15/09/14.
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Code2care. All rights reserved.
//



typealias unsignedInteger32bit = UInt32


var a:unsignedInteger32bit = 100


println("\(a)")

Output :

100
Program ended with exit code: 0