Re: Lambdas and "typedefs" in Vim9

> I have not followed the development of Vim9 script closely, but
> yesterday I have started to play with it. I was pleasantly surprised to
> see how far it's got already: I could convert some scripts of mine
> without much effort and make them run just fine!

Glad to hear. Note that some things still change.

> I have two questions/curiosities:
>
> 1. I was not able to pass lambdas to defs, only funcrefs. Can/will this
> be supported?

Can you give an example of what does not work?

> 2. Has a type aliasing or "typedef" mechanism been considered or,
> perhaps, already planned? My use case is defining a library of opaque
> types, which I can change without the need to modify client code.

Yes, typedefs are planned to be added at some point. We can make
everything work without it, so it's for later.

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