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I have a typealias for UInt (`typealias PlanOID = UInt`). Ideally, I’d like to bind a class/type/static function to PlanOID (e.g. `PlanOID.nowOID()` ), but I think this is not possible. I’m assuming that PlanOID is just what it says, a substitution alias, not a distinct type. And since UInt doesn’t have a Companion, I can’t extend that. Is this correct? Am I missing some other trick.

I get that I can just define a global free function, but I’d rather bind the behavior to the type if I could (avoids namespace clutter)

currently expermental, but sounds like you would be interested in inline classes <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/inline-classes.html>

And *then* I can add my own companion. Very interesting, thanks.