Re: Trying to understand a simple piece of code: dmd barray

[Dibyendu Majumdar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 12:26:32 UTC, drug wrote:
I am trying to understand 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/backend/barray.d.

Two questions:

1. What does this mean and why is it needed?

line 95: alias array this;

This means that `array` can be used instead of `this`

Hmm should not that change the meaning of this throughout the 
struct? is this good practice?

Thank you