In the same vein, what about

import javafx.scene.paint.Color as ColorFX

and

typealias ColorFX as javafx.scene.paint.Color

The difference is that

typealias

is

public

by default and will be accessible outside of a file. So you may want to declare it

private

. Also you can access

typealias

by a full qualified name, while named import by that name only.

Ah, indeed. Both are very good points. Thanks!

Also it might be worth mentioning that in my experience, typealiases are the most reliable way to crash the Kotlin compiler, so use other techniques if I can

@dmcg I prefer to use complex hierarchies of nested generics 🙂

Complex hierarchies of nested generic typealiases it is then