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Hi, do you know any way to include annotations in `typealias`? I could be great for constrains and dtos

Just put the annotations on the actual type

the compiler just replaces every occurence of a `typealias` with the actual type during compilation

That is what I am doing at the moment, but I have to repeat those annotations every time I use the alias

Something like this may be great!
```
@Pattern("""\$[A-Z]{4}[0-9]{3}^""")
typealias ProductCode = String
```

especially it the alias is used extensively in dtos

that seems to be a usecase for inline classes, but i assume oyu cannto use EAP ?

<@UBBFK40RZ> thx, I think it is not release yet and It is somehow link to openJDK Valhalla project

in this case no, inline classes are just classes wrapped around a single simple values (string, int, double)
that give you typesafety during compilation but uses the simple types at runtime