On 5/21/18 10:48 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
Nick Sabaluasky's first post to the D Blog is a tip on how to create an
aliased type that keeps its name in error messages.
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/21/complicated-types-prefer-alias-this-over-alias-for-easier-to-read-error-messages/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8l1a8u/prefer_alias_this_over_alias_for_easiertoread/
The list has two "1." headers.
Nice idea, I wonder if the compiler couldn't do this automatically with
alias, however. It already does this in some cases (e.g. string instead
of immutable(char)[]).
This would help solve the problem that error messages aren't going to
get better when you pass it into something that only accepts the aliased
type. However, for the most part, these are non-template functions anyway.
-Steve
