Why no schema alias?

          type LSTRING = STRING ;

t3.pas:8: warning: missing string capacity -- assuming 255

     Is there some other syntax to creating an alias of a schema type?

     On a related note, when I tried

          type LSTRING( Capacity : INTEGER ) = STRING( Capacity ) ;
I got
          t3.pas:9: error: duplicate field `Capacity'

on the attempted type declaration, and again each time I used the
new type name.
     I tried "STRING( LSTRING.Capacity )" and "STRING( .Capacity )".
No improvement.

          type LSTRING( N : INTEGER ) = STRING( N ) ;

compiled, and worked almost as well as a true alias.  It wouldn't 
let me pass a string literal as the actual argument to a 
"const x : LSTRING" parameter.



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