how to correctly 'typedef' handle types

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On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 07:05:49 UTC, francesco cattoglio 
wrote:
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#Typedef
>
> Take a look at it. Docs is scarce (pretty sure you will need to 
> take a look around to find something) but it should just do 
> what you need.

The prerelease docs contain more information:
http://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_typecons.html#.Typedef