On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 07:36:57 UTC, Mike wrote:
Can someone please clarify for me which of these is the
"preferred" syntax?
alias that this;
alias this : that;
The documentation here (http://dlang.org/class.html#AliasThis)
doesn't mention the latter. I'll do the unrewarding work of
updating the docs if someone could just please tell me which
syntax the core language folks prefer.
Thanks.
Mike
For context:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1413
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1685
I'd like for 'alias that this' to go away.
I'm fine with 'alias this = that'
If we must 'alias this : that' or "this implicitly casts to that"
is also reasonable to me.
Yes 'alias that this' can stay for backwards compatibility.
No 'alias this : that' has not been implemented (that I'm aware
of).
