Markus Schaber wrote:
It's not only about documenting the pure existence of the aliases (which was already documented in the table on the datatype TOC page), it's also about telling the user which of the names are the ones to avoid, and the reasons to do so.
*blink* Why do any need to be avoided? What you use is a matter of taste, and your organisation's coding standards. From a purely technical POV I don't see any reason to avoid using either the canonical type names or the various aliases.
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