With statement extension

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On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 11:10:21 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
> On 04/28/16 10:28, Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 18:34:18 UTC, Artur Skawina 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>        ref Ex1() { return e1.someProperties.someModulusX; }
>> 
>> Unless any of the properties is an enum or, well, a @property, 
>> and I'd expect both in such case.
>
> s/ref/@property auto ref/, but it either won't matter in
> practice (@property) or be easily fixable (non-lvals).
>
> The main point was that what OP is asking for is yet another
> function definition syntax. D has quite a few already, and
> more are regularly requested (like overloading `alias`).
> Adding a special case just for with-expressions wouldn't
> be a good idea.
>
> artur

If it's just about syntax sugar, I definitely would prefer to be 
able to use alias over ref, e.g.

alias v = el.someProperties.aRatio;