Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> On 3/20/2012 3:58 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Alias in particular is a much bigger deal than it seems since it's 
>> seemingly
>> trivial but can be *incredibly* helpful with templates *and* with 
>> importing.
>
> I'd have to agree with this. I find it amazing that other languages 
> entirely miss the boat on this.
>
> C++ has a very crippled version of it in "template template parameters".

I particulary love how D's alias is used to disambiguate symbol conflicts. 
Brilliant approach. I know I wouldn't have thought of it.