Re: Aliasing member's members

[ketmar]

Kayomn wrote:

> On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 21:04:51 UTC, TheFlyingFiddle wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 20:50:35 UTC, Kayomn wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Don't think you can alias member variables directly.
>>
>> You could do this though:
>>
>> struct Player {
>>     Entity entity;
>>
>>     ref auto pos() inout { return entity.position; }
>> }
>>
>> Which will give you most of what you want. Although if you want to take 
>> the address of pos you have to use
>>
>> auto addr = &player.pos();
>
> Damn, was hoping to keep my structs as plain old data-structures. Thanks 
> for the info, guess I won't be doing this then.

write `pos` as free function then, and use UFCS. there is no real 
difference. ;-)