https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14964
Mathias Lang <mathias.l...@sociomantic.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mathias.l...@sociomantic.co | |m --- Comment #2 from Mathias Lang <mathias.l...@sociomantic.com> --- I would point to the spec here: http://dlang.org/spec/declaration.html#AliasDeclaration > `AliasDeclarations` create a symbol that is an alias for another type, and > can be used anywhere that other type may appear. > Aliased types are semantically identical to the types they are aliased to. > The debugger cannot distinguish between them, and there is no difference as > far as function overloading is concerned. To me, it sounds like you are looking to create a subtype, in which case `Typedef` would be a better approach. `alias` is just not designed for this. This really sounds like a DIP to me. --