Simplifying access to nested type names

[The-Futurist]

I'm writing a lot of code that has to refer to nested classes in generated code, stuff like JuliaParser.StructContext.

Having to qualify the type names (and there's a large number of these) with JuliaParser all the time is becoming tedious and makes the code less readable.

So would it be feasible to introduce something akin to using static but for class/struct names?

Perhaps something like this (reusing an existing keyword)

using typeof JuliaParser;

Then it would be possible (to access nested class names without qualification, much as we can already do for static.

I know that today we can do this:

using SourceContext = JuliaParser.SourceContext;

But when there are a great many nested class this becomes burdensome.

Thoughts?

[333fred]

That's just using static:

using static Program;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
    }

    public class Nested {}
}

class Other
{
    Nested n = new(); // Works just fine.
}

[The-Futurist]

Thanks, I had no idea that static wasn't confined to static!

[bernd5]

You can define alias names in your local file... or globally

using JuliaParserContext = JuliaParser.SourceContext;

[The-Futurist]

Yes, that's true but I have like fifty nested classes!