Preferred Alias Declaration Style

[Basile B.]

On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 14:23:25 UTC, Uknown wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 14:01:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 12:25:26 UTC, Uknown wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 10:22:38 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>
>> aliasing a function type only works with the old syntax too:
>>
>>     alias void proto_identifier();
>>
>> Very unfriendly syntax. Impossible to express with 
>> AliasDeclarationY (aka "the new alias syntax").
>
> You can use this syntax for functions :
>
> `alias proto_identifier = void function();`

Nah it's not the same thing ;)

----
void main()
{
     alias void proto_identifier_old();
     alias proto_identifier_new = void function();
     assert(!is(proto_identifier_old == proto_identifier_new)); // 
passes
}
----

- proto_identifier_new is a function type (stuff)
- proto_identifier_new is a function **pointer** type (e.g &stuff)

Actually my answer was more informative because i reported this 
limitation years ago, see 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16020.