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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-05-27 16:09, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 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

I have no idea. The major part of DWT is manually ported, as far as I 
know. In this case it seems that not all of the aliases are necessary. 
But in general, in DWT, we want D to behave as Java, to ease porting. 
Just for the record, I'm not trying to argument for either anyone's side 
here, I'm just trying to correct facts about DWT that was incorrect. And 
apparently I was incorrect as well :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg