On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 16:12, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com>wrote:
(On alias this)
> Yeah, I tried to get it to work too, but it doesn't. Even something like
> this doesn't work:
>
> struct Foo {
> uint x;
> uint castToUint() { return x; }
> alias castToUint this;
> }
>
> This should work. The template code you wrote above might not work,
> because you can't overload functions on no arguments. I'm unsure how this
> should work, but at least something like this should:
>
> alias opCast!uint this;
>
> A bug filing is in order I think.
>
I never got 'alias this' to work. Regularly, someone posts some cool
possible code here, and I can't get it to compile :(
And IIRC, you can have only one alias this in an object, which somewhat
limits its usefulness.
Philippe
