typedef, why did it go? Is there anything instead?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> On 1/22/2012 9:44 AM, equinox at atw.hu wrote:
>> I noticed I cannot use typedef any longer in D2.
>> Why did it go?
>
> typedef turned out to have many difficult issues about when it was a 
> distinct type and when it wasn't.

Fortunately, you should still be able to get the same effect of typedef with 
a struct and alias this.