Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/23/14, 9:05 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 22 September 2014 at 09:39:29 UTC, Don wrote:
>> Having said that, though, the success of 'alias this' does raise some
>> interesting questions about how useful the concept of a typedef is.
>> Certainly it's much less useful than when Typedef was created.
>>
>> My feeling is that almost every time when you want to create a new
>> type from an existing one, you actually want to restrict the
>> operations which can be performed on it. (Eg if you have typedef money
>> = double; then money*money doesn't make much sense). For most typedefs
>> I think you're better off with 'alias this'.
>
> If you have a look at our transition.d it does exactly that right now -
> mixes in the struct with the same name as typedef had and does `alias
> this` for its value field ;)

So why not mix in Typedef? -- Andrei