Deprecated typedef

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-16 13:31, Don wrote:
> On 16.12.2011 08:41, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I know that this might be too late but wouldn't it be possible to defer
>> the error message about typedef to later in the compile phase. Making it
>> possible to put a typedef in a version statement, something like:
>>
>> version (D_Version2) {}
>> else {
>> typedef int foo;
>> }
>>
>> This would allow to both support D1 and D2 in a library without the need
>> for string mixins. Obviously the compiler still knows about typedef
>> since it can give a proper error message about it so I was hoping it
>> wouldn't have to be as the case with the new D2 keywords which do
>> require a string mixin if you're supporting both D1 and D2.
>>
>
> Why not just change your D1 code to use alias instead of typedef?

In this case it's a serialization library and I would like to support 
all available types.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg