Copyright (c) Qusay H. Mahmoud
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Advanced IDL: typedefs
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A typedef is an alias, or another name for an
existing data type
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Example:
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typedef long age;
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interface Customer {
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age howOld;
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}
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Typedefs of simple data types are mapped to
the original (I.e. replaced by the more basic
type)