Declare reference to variable ?

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I have a long named variable in a struct.

For example let's name that longnamedstruct.longnamedmember

I need to use that variable in many places of the code and i 
cannot create the copy of it.

In c++ i can
auto &v = longnamedstruct.longnamedmember;

Now i can use v anywhere.
Why i cannot declare reference in D ? Or can i ?

I can make pointer to that, but it is workaround and it's need to 
use variable dereferencing by * operator.