Re: Cannot alias null

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 20:44:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:26:13PM -0500, Tom Browder via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
This will not compile:

  alias blah = null;
[...]
'null' is a value, not a type. Try:

        alias blah = typeof(null);


T

Yet you can alias variables...

int i;
alias j = i;

So there's something special about "null".