On Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 18:39:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The key here is to understand that "alias" != "macro".
Re-reading this topic today and indeed that was the missing piece. I was sure that alias is just a compile-time string replacement akin to C macros, just with some niceties such as type checking.
Thanks to everyone commenting in this topic. For my initial question, I just ditched aliases and use full names instead. The underlying issue was my misunderstanding of the meaning of `symbol` as independently-addressable entity, and another misunderstanding of how `alias` works in D (and the fact that it's actually not just a macro).
