Re: Better way to achieve the following

[Tejas via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 21 June 2022 at 17:09:28 UTC, JG wrote:

Suppose we are often writing something like
```d
theFirstName[theFirstIndex].theSecondName[theSecondIndex].thirdName[theThirdIndex]=x;
```
One would like to something like
```d

alias shortName = theFirstName[theFirstIndex].theSecondName[theSecondIndex].thirdName[theThirdIndex];

shortName = x;
```
but you can't alias an expression.

[...]

Maybe check out `std.meta.Alias`?

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_meta.html#.Alias