Disappointing inflexibility of argument passing with "alias this"

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On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 14:35:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> There's no ambiguity there and no bug; it is working as 
> defined. alias this is only ever invoked if the outer type 
> doesn't fit. It does fit here, A is A, so no need to check 
> alias this at all.

It's arguably the right design. Conservativeness can prevent a 
lot of stupidity. I don't have a an example at hand though...