multiple `alias this` suggestion

Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 27 21:44:44 PDT 2017


On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 05:41:43 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 18:34:48 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 15:00:30 UTC, Steven 
>> Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> I think you can appreciate that this doesn't scale. Imagine a 
>>> case which has 2 or 3 optional alias this items.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>> Agreed, not manually, as it is exponential in the number of 
>> conditions.
>
> Image using frameworks which conveniently allow adding features 
> to a struct...
>
> struct Beholder
> {
>   mixin Entity!Movable;
>   mixin Render!"Beholder.png";
> }
>
> ... then you couldn't even solve it manually without rewriting 
> the framework.
>
> With distributed 'alias this' you could seamlessly combine any 
> number of frameworks from different vendors.

Please explain "seamlessly" with the prospect of name collisions.



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