Is kotlin meant to support file-private typealiase...

# language-proposals

[stantronic]

Is kotlin meant to support file-private typealiases currently? If not it could be a nice feature. I can write private typealias Binding = ItemRotaBinding in the IDE without lint errors, but then when I try to create another one (e.g. private typealias Binding = ItemShiftBinding) in an adjacent file, it complains about redeclaration

[Animesh Sahu]

I guess the visibility of the actual class may get reflected, as the typealias does not define a new type.

[stantronic]

but the actual type is public.

[Animesh Sahu]

So alias 'should' be public, no?

[Animesh Sahu]

Any usecase 👀

[Ilmir Usmanov [JB]]

It is a bug in type resolution, which requires breaking changes: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-24700

[stantronic]

thanks. Yeah my use case is just trying to make code less verbose by using a more generic typealias just within one file. E.g. I have adapters for lists which all use a databinding class and the name of the binding can get quite long e.g. - RotaParticipantItemBinding, ShiftSlotItemBinding, and then view holders which are generic - ViewBinderHolding<RotaParticipantItemBinding> which appears in multiple places but only that file. would be nice just to alias as Binding and ViewHolder at the top of the file without any clashes.

[stantronic]

have voted for the youtrack issue 👍