Re: alias for regular expressions

2015-09-15 Thread Thunderbird via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 07:11:38 UTC, Meta wrote: On Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 19:52:20 UTC, Thunderbird wrote: Thanks for your quick reply :) To expand on that, alias in D is nothing like the C macro preprocessor. D specifically disallows tricks like `#define true false`. In D,

alias for regular expressions

2015-09-13 Thread Thunderbird via Digitalmars-d-learn
Some special interest thingamabob: I've tried to redefine "else if" as "elif" using "alias elif = else if;". No matter what to no avail. I know this is probably useless fancy stuff, but is there any way to get this done without much ado?

Re: alias for regular expressions

2015-09-13 Thread Thunderbird via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 19:51:38 UTC, anonymous wrote: On Sunday 13 September 2015 21:47, Thunderbird wrote: Some special interest thingamabob: I've tried to redefine "else if" as "elif" using "alias elif = else if;". No matter what to no avail. I know this is probably useless

Re: alias for regular expressions

2015-09-13 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday 13 September 2015 21:47, Thunderbird wrote: > Some special interest thingamabob: > > I've tried to redefine "else if" as "elif" using "alias elif = > else if;". No matter what to no avail. > > I know this is probably useless fancy stuff, but is there any way > to get this done