On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 00:44:31 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
A way around this, which may be the same as the approach used
by string was:
alias immutable(Msg_) Msg;
class Msg_
{ ...
This is exactly what Jonathan suggested in the post above. And
yes, it's how string is handled:
alias string = immutable(char)[];
This so far appears to do what I want. The only problem is
that it introduces an extraneous symbol, which I would prefer
to avoid.
What problem do you want to avoid? This is a common D idiom.
Alias names are very short-lived. Yes, it's another symbol in the
namespace, but it will never make it to the object file. It won't
even make it to error messages -- you'll see Msg_ there instead.
