Specify rhs at initialisation or assignment of typedef' d variable

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 31 July 2017 at 08:53:10 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> [ ... ]
> I suspect that I am asking for something that literally makes 
> no sense at all. I wanted to try and avoid opening the door to 
> allowing the following kind of typing error now, eg
>     enum ip_address = 0x11223344;
> [ ... ]

Please have a look at the bigEndian function and BigEndian struct 
in SQLite-D

https://github.com/UplinkCoder/sqlite-d/blob/master/source/utils.d

The point here is writing your own struct and using alias-this 
yourself.
Then you only need a function to produce constants of the right 
type.
Such a function should be trivially CTFEable