Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 04:44:07 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 16:32:04 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 10:00:31 UTC, Jack 
>> Applegame wrote:
>>> You can use module name and line number as unique tag.
>>
>> This is exactly what I would have expected as default 
>> behaviour. Is anyone aware why this counter appoach was used 
>> instead?
>
> It's a deceivingly bad default. See the comments in the PR that 
> introduced Typedef[1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/300

Yes, this is a problem. But how is that possibly worse than 
existing implementation which gives wrong results in 100% of 
cases? file/line cookie approach has issues but it is best we can 
get with existing language support.