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[Walter Bright]

On 11/27/2012 5:52 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> I agree, and if I remember previous discussions on the subject
> correctly, it seems like only Walter is in favor of upholding the
> current restrictions of "alias" parameters to symbols. I simply do not
> see a point in pushing compiler implementation details on the user like
> that – for the programmer, a type is a type is a type…
>
> Walter, do you have an example of a situation where the alias parameter
> restriction would be beneficial?  (for the D code involved, I don't mean
> the few lines of code avoided in the compiler)

In any case, it will break a great deal of existing code to change  that 
behavior.