Change typealias to const

NEWS.md

@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
 - z-axis keywords
 - 3D indexing overhaul: `push!`, `append!` support
 - matplotlib colormap constants (`:inferno` is the new default colormap for Plots)
-- `typealias KW Dict{Symbol,Any}` used in place of splatting in many places
+- `const KW = Dict{Symbol,Any}` used in place of splatting in many places
 - png generation for plotly backend using wkhtmltoimage
 - `normalize` and `weights` keywords
 - background/foreground subcategories for fine-tuning of looks

src/Plots.jl

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ export
 
 import Measures
 import Measures: Length, AbsoluteLength, Measure, BoundingBox, mm, cm, inch, pt, width, height, w, h
-typealias BBox Measures.Absolute2DBox
+const BBox = Measures.Absolute2DBox
 export BBox, BoundingBox, mm, cm, inch, pt, px, pct, w, h
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------

src/components.jl

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 
-typealias P2 FixedSizeArrays.Vec{2,Float64}
-typealias P3 FixedSizeArrays.Vec{3,Float64}
+const P2 = FixedSizeArrays.Vec{2,Float64}
+const P3 = FixedSizeArrays.Vec{3,Float64}
 
 nanpush!(a::AbstractVector{P2}, b) = (push!(a, P2(NaN,NaN)); push!(a, b))
 nanappend!(a::AbstractVector{P2}, b) = (push!(a, P2(NaN,NaN)); append!(a, b))

src/deprecated/series_args.jl

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # This should cut down on boilerplate code and allow more focused dispatch on type
 # note: returns meta information... mainly for use with automatic labeling from DataFrames for now
 
-typealias FuncOrFuncs @compat(Union{Function, AVec{Function}})
+const FuncOrFuncs = @compat(Union{Function, AVec{Function}})
 
 all3D(d::KW) = trueOrAllTrue(st -> st in (:contour, :contourf, :heatmap, :surface, :wireframe, :contour3d, :image), get(d, :seriestype, :none))
 

src/series.jl

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # This should cut down on boilerplate code and allow more focused dispatch on type
 # note: returns meta information... mainly for use with automatic labeling from DataFrames for now
 
-typealias FuncOrFuncs{F} Union{F, Vector{F}, Matrix{F}}
+const FuncOrFuncs{F} = Union{F, Vector{F}, Matrix{F}}
 
 all3D(d::KW) = trueOrAllTrue(st -> st in (:contour, :contourf, :heatmap, :surface, :wireframe, :contour3d, :image), get(d, :seriestype, :none))
 

src/types.jl

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # TODO: I declare lots of types here because of the lacking ability to do forward declarations in current Julia
 # I should move these to the relevant files when something like "extern" is implemented
 
-typealias AVec AbstractVector
-typealias AMat AbstractMatrix
-typealias KW Dict{Symbol,Any}
+const AVec = AbstractVector
+const AMat = AbstractMatrix
+const KW = Dict{Symbol,Any}
 
 immutable PlotsDisplay <: Display end
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Extrema() = Extrema(Inf, -Inf)
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------
 
-typealias SubplotMap Dict{Any, Subplot}
+const SubplotMap = Dict{Any, Subplot}
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------