I’m playing around with something like this:

defmodule Todo.User do
  defstruct name: nil
end

defmodule Todo.Todo do
  defstruct text: nil
  def complete(%Todo.Todo{} = todo, %Todo.User{} = completer), do: nil
end

Now, writing %Todo.Todo{} and %Todo.User{} is tedious. Especially if you have a lot of references to the types from a lot of functions. I would prefer %Todo{} and %User{}.

What is the best way of doing this? Is there any good reason not to look for a shorthand here?

I tried this:

defmodule Todo.Todo do
  alias Todo.User
  alias Todo.Todo
  defstruct text: nil
  def complete(%Todo{} = todo, %User{} = completer), do: nil
end

and it works, but now the order of the alias:es is important and I have to alias everything with the Todo prefix. Doesn’t feel right.