Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2012-01-01 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 31/12/2011 13:34, Trass3r wrote: Basically it was deprecated because it's poorly defined and implemented. snip Would you care to elaborate? Moreover, if that's the only reason then why not improve it rather than getting rid of it? There are several types of typedefs that need to be

Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-31 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 30/12/2011 10:35, Stephan wrote: is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? Could someone please provide a link to the thread with the reasons for deprecating typedef? There are too many threads with the words typedef and deprecate

typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-30 Thread Stephan
is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? S.

Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-30 Thread Caligo
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Stephan s...@extrawurst.org wrote: is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? S. Get over it, move on, and hope they fix the thousands of bugs left in DMD. P.S. use `alias`.

Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-30 Thread Trass3r
is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? I've brought this up several times. People just don't give a shit. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5467

Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, December 30, 2011 11:35:28 Stephan wrote: is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? There's a pull request being reviewed but nothing in Phobos yet. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/300 - Jonathan M

Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-30 Thread Stephan
On 30.12.2011 12:09, Trass3r wrote: is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? I've brought this up several times. People just don't give a shit. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5467 thats too bad. pull request looks

Re: typedef deprecated - now what ?

2011-12-30 Thread Torarin
2011/12/30 Stephan s...@extrawurst.org: On 30.12.2011 12:09, Trass3r wrote: is there a template or something in phobos to get the same typesafe behaviour of good old typedef ? I've brought this up several times. People just don't give a shit.