On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:47:13PM +0000, Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] > The `alias` and the `enum` just make the code a little nicer to read > by letting you write `Unit` instead of `void[0]` and `unit` instead of > `void[0].init`. You could get rid of them and the code would work > exactly the same way; it'd just be a little bit uglier: > > void[0][E] mySet; > > mySet[...] = void[0].init; [...]
Unfortunately, this doesn't work due to a syntax restriction (the parser isn't expecting a type name after the `=`, and will raise a syntax error). So the alias is in fact necessary. T -- Fact is stranger than fiction.