Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 08:49:02PM +0000, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 05:40:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:05:57AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
> >wrote:
> >>I don't think I've used any kind of typedef for a long time. I
> >>prefer to just use a plain struct.
> >
> >Yeah, I found structs + alias this far more useful than any kind of
> >typedef. Due to the way alias this lookups work, you can basically
> >"customize" the underlying type by defining the appropriate struct
> >methods to shadow the underlying type's, thereby achieving a kind of
> >"static inheritance".
> >
> >
> >T
> 
> Do you think it's worth to mention it in "Comments" section of the
> docs?
[...]

Sure. Which page?


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