Could new keyword help function hijacking and prevented aliasing all over the place??

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 27 May 2011 09:43:39 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2011-05-27 14:08, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

>> I may see why you see so many cases -- dwt was likely ran through a java
>> to d converter, and such converters often add unnecessary lines, because
>> it is easier to do that than to examine each individual case.
>
> DWT is manually ported from Java. A automatic port was tried and it  
> didn't workout that well, too much of the Java standard library needed  
> to be reimplemented in D. The port tries to stay as close to the  
> original code base as possible to ease merging future versions of SWT  
> and to minimize porting bugs.
>

Why is this comment in the file given?

/* language convertion www.dsource.org/project/tioport */

Regardless of whether this was a manual port or not, the profuse aliasing  
is unnecessary, and does not provide a valid use case for the proposal.

-Steve