Re: GConf design goals.

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Another handy CORBA_any feature are type aliases. A type alias is simply
another name for a type, nothing more. This is quite useful since it gives
you some more info about the type. For example:

typedef string ContentType;

which defines ContentType to be string. An generic editor can use this meta
info to
provide specialized editing features (maybe provide a list of mime types).

- Dietmar