On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 22:58:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
You should rethink implementing multiple alias this. D is
increasingly becoming a poorly typed language.
"alias this" is basically static prototype-based programming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming
Self had multiple inheritance based on prototypes and removed
it because it was not much used and lead to problems when
figuring out which methods were called.
No.
D is as poorly typed as one wants is to be and multiple alias
this is a necessary tool to achieve strong static typing without
sacrificing expressiveness.
