kenji hara:
This syntax never been valid in past, because alias declaration
cannot make alias of an expression.
Right, sorry, my mistake.
Now we can write alias declaration as follows:
alias Integer = int;
alias IntArray = int[];
These syntax are continuously valid in 2.062.
OK. So they aren't going away as I have feared.
But, while a discussion for the compiler fix, a wrong syntax
change, which
has similar look but definitely different meaning, had been
introduced.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1187
struct S {
int value;
alias value this; // old syntax
alias this = value; // new syntax, from 2.061
}
I opened the pull request #1413 in the beta term for 2.061, but
it had
_accidentally_ released without deeply discussion.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1413
I think and believe that we MUST reset things.
I see. Thank you for the work.
Bye,
bearophile
