Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/21/14, 10:56 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Sun, 21 Sep 2014 08:04:39 -0700
> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> Why would anyone hope a valid idiom were not mentioned?
>
> It's just what people do when an argument would be
> detrimental to their own position in an argument. :p
> Look, I don't feel strongly about it. Just, from an objective
> point of view, aliases and templates in their current form are
> no good candidates to implement strongly typed typedefs. The
> semantics are too different. A proxy struct for example
> does more cleanly define a new symbol and type with normal
> lookup rules. But let's not waste our energy on this now.
> It is after all a convenience feature, not an enabler like
> shared libraries, ARC or standard logging facilities.

Wise words, thanks! -- Andrei