Specify rhs at initialisation or assignment of typedef' d variable

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On Monday, 31 July 2017 at 07:16:25 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> Say I have used Typedef! to create some new type and I declare 
> a variable, constant or enum of that type. Is there a way that 
> I can express a literal value on the rhs without having to use 
> casts, as that seems to defeat the point of the nice type 
> safety?
>
> I may be asking for the impossible or _illogical_ here. In any 
> case, I still get to keep the nice feature of not being able to 
> mix up types with assignment from one variable to another.
>
> Specific example is
>
>     mac_addr_48_t   my_mac_address = 0x112233445566uL;
>
> Which now produces a compile time error after I changed to use 
> an alias  = Typedef!uint64_t as opposed to just a straight 
> alias = uint64_t earlier with no strong typing.

If struct + alias this is not strong enough the only solution is 
see is a helper template à la "octal" or "hexString", i.e a 
static cally checked string.