On Monday, April 02, 2012 09:37:04 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 02-04-2012 07:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Monday, April 02, 2012 07:23:23 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > >> On 02-04-2012 06:25, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > >>> alias this is not supposed to be restricted such that you can only have > >>> one > >>> per type. That's a temporary, implementation problem. TDPL specifically > >>> talks about having multiple alias thises per type. > >>> > >>> - Jonathan M Davis > >> > >> What is the reason it hasn't been realized yet? > > > > I don't know. While we're getting closer to having everything in TDPL > > implemented correctly each release, there's still plenty of stuff left to > > do, and no one has tackled the alias this issue yet. I expect that it's > > not an entirely easy thing to fix and that other stuff has been higher > > priority. > > > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6083 > > > > The major thing being tackled this release has been const-correctness, and > > it's not done yet (in spite of there now being a beta for 2.059). I > > believe > > that that's been one of Walter's major focuses this release cycle, and I > > wouldn't really expect him to tackle anything else major until Object's > > const- correctness been sorted out. Nothing is stopping someone else from > > doing it, but no one has. Plenty of other stuff has been fixed though. > > > > - Jonathan M Davis > > To clarify, I mean to ask whether there are any design flaws in the > strategy of having multiple alias this in one type, or whether it is > purely an issue in the implementation (i.e. just plain hasn't been done > yet)?
As far as I know, it's purely an implementation issue, but I don't know. - Jonathan M Davis