alias restriction??!

[Basile B.]

On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 15:00:59 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 12:42:47 UTC, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
>> On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 12:08:07 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>>
>>> Easiest workaround:
>>>
>>> ref inout(long) Second() inout { return second.one; }
>>
>> Was trying to avoid this for performance reasons. In fact what 
>> are the performance implications of this sort of thing with 
>> current implementations? --- relative to using a simple offset.
>
> Almost certainly no difference at all. Even DMD can inline this 
> function:
>
> https://d.godbolt.org/z/7ve6M8

The alias proposal matches to the "code fast" moto. When you do 
object composition with several level of nesting this would be a 
time saver.