Why typedef's shouldn't have been removed :(

[Mehrdad]

And for those who couldn't care less about Windows, I should also 
note that it's impossible to distinguish between size_t and uint, 
etc.

On Saturday, 5 May 2012 at 05:25:29 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 May 2012 at 05:02:48 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> Now it's impossible to figure out whether a ParameterTypeTuple 
>> contains an HWND versus an HGDIOBJ or whatever...
>>
>> this should really be fixed...
>
> Features like this:
>
> typedef int type = 5;
> type var;
> var.init; // is 5
>
> AFAIK are also lost.