https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16123
--- Comment #5 from Max Samukha <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Steven Schveighoffer from comment #4) > I'm having trouble seeing how this logically is different. Access to t.s.x > is done by adding some offset to &t, just like access to s.x is done by > adding some offset to &s. > > I get that the "symbol" I'm trying to alias is really a compound symbol, but > I can alias it just fine in other places. I just say that what you are trying is not how 'alias' works, and the current semantics does make sense. Whether it is good is a different issue. > > This reminds me of the whole inability to alias keywords. It's an > implementation detail that I shouldn't have to care about! Inability to alias keywords is a different issue. --
