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[Timon Gehr]

On 11/26/2012 08:59 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.
>

Well, no, it wont. Why do you think it will?