"Bekenn" <leav...@alone.com> wrote in message news:ilv2pd$1vkd$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 3/17/2011 2:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >> I'm with y'all too. Even Walter needs to stop and think for a second. >> We're considering enabling >> >> alias a = b; >> >> as an equivalent for >> >> alias b a; >> > > Along similar lines (hoping this isn't too far off-topic), what's the > current plan for typedef? I'm aware that it's deprecated (and for good > reason), but some of my reading suggests that there's a successor on the > horizon.
I was thinking of asking about that, too. Specifically, would it make sence for "typedef b a;" (or "typedef a = b;") to be lowered to something like: struct a { b _tmp; alias _tmp this; } Hmm, then again, IIUC, that would allow 'a' to be implicity converted to 'b' which would defeat half the point, so maybe not.