Where are we on getting rid of Nullable's alias this? Was that happening?

[FeepingCreature]

On Thursday, 30 May 2019 at 18:23:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 8:39:05 AM MDT aliak via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I'm not sure if there's a workaround. I remember there was 
>> talk of removing alias this in Nullable? But I also remember 
>> there was no consensus?
>
> I don't think that there was ever a consensus on it (mostly 
> just one person being really vocal about IIRC). But regardless, 
> IIRC, what prevented it from going any further was that 
> deprecating the alias resulted in deprecation messages when the 
> alias was checked by the compiler even if it wasn't actually 
> used in the code, meaning that you got a lot of extraneous 
> deprecation messages. I believe that the bug was reported, but 
> I don't know what its status is.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I've tried to make a PR for it just now, and there don't seem to 
be any outstanding issues preventing deprecating `alias get this` 
aside issue 19936, for which I have a PR on stable and which 
should hopefully be merged soonish. As soon as that's done, I'll 
start a PR to deprecate `alias get this` to hopefully spur 
discussion about why this is definitely the right way to go 
forward and why all the people who like `alias get this` are 
wrong (if there are any). :)