It's one of the ticks from the programming langauge D comparision chart. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/declaration.html#typedef
/ Martin Nilsson (ja till euro, nej till cent)
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2003-09-04 02:11: Subject: Language comparisions
Aha. That's an odd feature, methinks. Why would we want it?
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS