Thoughts about private aliases now working

[Marco Leise]

Am 02.02.2012, 02:14 Uhr, schrieb Martin Nowak <dawg at dawgfoto.de>:

> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:55:11 +0100, Vladimir Panteleev  
> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 23:14:47 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>> Are there any other options I'm missing?
>>
> You need to put it in the mixin as you do with imports.
>
> mixin template Func()
> {
>      private alias string[string] SS;
>      SS someFunc(SS s)
>      {
>          return s;
>      }
> }
>
>> How about this:
>>
>>> a.d
>>> ----
>>> private alias string[string] SS;
>>> mixin template Func()
>>> {
>>
>>       private alias a.SS SS;
> You are still accessing a.SS from b so this won't work. It's a compiler  
> bug and is fixed here
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/669.

I thought mixin templates were _supposed_ to run in the scope of the call  
site. Doesn't this mixin with the mixin blur the line and make the  
language less consistent/more confusing?