Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/21/2014 12:08 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> My perception of this thread is that there's an abundance of that misleading vividness
> fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_vividness). Rhetoric techniques blow
> the most trivial matters out of proportion and build to the foaming co(ncl|f)usion
> that "less convenient than a baked-in facility" really means "unusable".
> I don't care for that kind of argument.

Make sure to not fall prey to 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy though.

On 09/22/2014 12:22 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I don't mind the capitalization, ad hominem, etc. The arguments against
> Typedef are honestly terrible (by all participants), ...

Some participants have pointed out (some more vivdly than others) that 
it is less convenient and less sane than a trivial library alternative 
using e.g. template mixins. There's currently simply too much incentive 
to roll one's own that does the job better if the functionality is at 
all required. That's not a "terrible" argument.