cannot alias array ;/

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 19 January 2017 at 07:48:03 UTC, Jot wrote:
> alias a = myarray[k];
>
> fails
>
> myarray is a multidimensial array that I want to reduce writing 
> it every time but D complains that it can't alias it.
>
> I simply want it to do a direct substitution, nothing fancy, 
> just to reducing typing.

Simplest solution, has brackets that you may not like:

void main()
{
	int[][] a = [[1]];
	size_t k = 0;
	ref foo() { return a[k]; };
	foo() = [3];
	assert(a == [[3]]);
}