On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 22:09:21 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
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).
It appears it has been implemented, but not acted upon: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1341
