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[Timon Gehr]

On 02/01/2014 07:44 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 17:38:44 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> alias this = foo;
>>
>> This is new syntax, has some edge cases which fail and intended to
>> replace the old typedef style
>>
>> alias Type NewName;
>>
>> Such that it look more like variable assignment:
>>
>> alias NewName = Type;
>
> This syntax was intended to only be used for normal aliases, not "alias
> this", and was supposed to be removed for latter.

Which is highly nonsensical and basically shows that alias this should 
have been done as a (or more than one) specially named member instead, 
as the syntactic pun appears not to be working.