Re: mixed-in ctor not on par with explicit one?

[Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Hello and thanks for your reply.

Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> [1] http://dlang.org/spec/template-mixin.html - search for "Alias
> declarations can be used to overload together functions declared in
> different mixins"

But I'm not able to do that with `this`:

mixin template myCtors()
{
    this(int i) {}
    this(char c) {}
}
struct Test
{
    mixin myCtors;
    alias this = myCtors.this;
    this(string s) {}
}
void main()
{
    auto a = Test("hello");
    auto b = Test(1);
    auto c = Test('c');
}

But I get the error:

<src>(9): Error: identifier expected following '.', not 'this'
<src>(9): Error: cannot use syntax 'alias this = myCtors', use 'alias 
myCtors this' instead

Even actually giving the mixin instance an identifier doesn't help:

    mixin myCtors!() myCtorsInst;
    alias this = myCtorsInst.this;

<src>(9): Error: identifier expected following '.', not 'this'
<src>(9): Error: cannot use syntax 'alias this = myCtorsInst', use 'alias 
myCtorsInst this' instead

This is not what alias <> this is supposed to do, right? So how am I 
supposed to get the mixed in ctors work?

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Shriramana Sharma, Penguin #395953