I found out about AliasThis on the IRC, and it's pretty neat. I've got a suggestion for it however: Assigning a value to a class/struct which has aliased a member to this would forward the assignment to that member.

For instance:

----
struct IntPair {
        private int _pair;
        int left()  { return _pair[0]; }
        int right() { return _pair[1]; }
}

IntPair a = [1, 2]; // _pair = [1, 2]
IntPair b;
b.left(); //0
b = [3, 4];
b.left(); //3
----

Thoughts? I think it'd be very useful for defining types that look and act like built in primitives, but can have arbitrary methods and operator overloads attached to them.

Thanks to <jA_cOp> for bringing up AliasThis in IRC :-)

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