Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Dicebot:

> Is anyone aware why this counter appoach was used instead?

It's not sound, it's a hack. Putting unreliable hacks in a 
standard library is very bad. It's even worse than the problems 
that Walter has listed for __COUNT__ (I didn't ask for that count 
in my enhancement request. If you have to copy it's often better 
to copy from Lisp/ML/Ada instead of C++).

Bye,
bearophile