How to simulate a new type

[tired_eyes via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 15 May 2015 at 06:11:41 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
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> On 05/14/2015 06:38 PM, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn 
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>> On Friday, 15 May 2015 at 01:03:32 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
>>> Yes, that looks as if it would do the job, but what are its 
>>> advantages over a simple struct?
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>> None really, except perhaps automatic forwarding of operators 
>> which is easy enough to do on a struct too (and with a struct, 
>> you can do only the ones that actually make sense for you).
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>> Typedef has a few major disadvantages too - surprising 
>> behavior if you forget the second parameter, for example. The 
>> library typedef should really be removed.
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> Thank you.  I was hoping that struct was a good approach, I've 
> just never seen anyone recommending it, so I wanted to check.

FWIW, I've seen a lot of user-defined types made with structs in 
the code of C-ported libs, and was sure that is a common approach.