Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[Freddy via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 03:08:46 UTC, Jakob Ovrum
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 02:57:03 UTC, Freddy wrote:
>> When you have separate 2 typedefs of the exact same type, they
>> are equal.While this maybe able to be solved with
>> Typedef!(Typedef!(...)) different modules typedef ing the same
>> type (most likely build-in types) would have their typedef be
>> equivalent thereby degrading the purpose of typedef.
>> ---
>> import std.typecons;
>>
>> alias meter = Typedef!float;
>> alias feet = Typedef!float;
>> static assert(!is(meter==feet));
>> ---
>> Your thoughts?
>
> `Typedef` takes a second argument that can make it unique. It's 
> all in the docs.

Sorry, my mistake.