...alias allows to extend base types.
Extended typedef allows to extend and to reduce operations...

...think that such extended typedef makes sense for other basic types:

typedef color uint
{
    uint...

I like that typedef.  Should be templatable though...

typedef(T) array T[]
{
    ...
}

Or some such...

...example string definition might look like as:

typedef  string char[]
{
    disable opAssign;
    ....
    char[] tolower() { ..... }
}

In...

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=249


jpelcis@gmail.com changed:

           What...

...PIUtilities.h"

/***************************************************************/

#if MSWindows
typedef	HFILE	FileHandle;
typedef Handle	AliasHandle;
typedef struct
	{	
	char fileName [256...

Like this

Module ss.d

typedef void delegate(...)  SIGNAL;
typedef void delegate(...)  SLOT;

struct SIGNAL...

Like this

Module ss.d

typedef void delegate(...)  SIGNAL;
typedef void delegate(...)  SLOT;

struct SIGNAL...

...spec states:

"If TypeSpecialization is one of  typedef  struct  union  class interface enum  function  delegate...

...stdio;

class BaseClass {
        int BaseProp() { return 1; }
}

typedef BaseClass ClassTypedef;

void testfunc(ClassTypedef t) {    writefln...