One of the big problems with `typealias` is that i...

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[karelpeeters]

One of the big problems with typealias is that it doesn't offer any type safety. For example, say I'm packing a 2D coordinate of `Int`s in a Long, I don't want the Long value to ever be interpreted as a number nor the other way around.

[mquigley]

gotcha. i suppose another way of doing this would be to add an extension method to Longs like Long.toMyInline which is how you have to do things with integers and unsigned primitives anyways.

[mquigley]

but at that point, might as well just use the constructor syntax