dmd 1.042 and 2.027 releases

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
news:gqvi1g$2uin$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Walter Bright:
>> The large volume of bug fixes is because a lot of people contributed
>> patches. Thanks!
>
> Because you have given them a chance to do it :-)
>
> I have tested 1.042 and runs all my unittests fine.
>
>>Added alias this<
>
> I'd like a bit more explanations/examples of the usage of this feature.
>

Yes, I'm wondering if this will finally let us do something along the lines 
of:

template Foo()
{
    alias "blah blah" this;
    // Was: const char[] Foo = "blah blah";
}