Re: Better way to achieve the following

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 6/21/22 10:09, 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.

An option is nested functions:

  ref shortName() {
    return 
theFirstName[theFirstIndex].theSecondName[theSecondIndex].thirdName[theThirdIndex];
  }

  shortName = x;

Ali