Multiple alias this, what's the hold up?

Jonathan M Davis newsgroup.d at jmdavisprog.com
Wed Jun 19 05:53:42 UTC 2019


On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 10:09:24 PM MDT Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 22:51:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > It definitely looks like a DIP would be required for multiple
> > alias this-es to become a thing, and whatever was in the DIP
> > would have to convince Walter that it doesn't have the problems
> > that multiple inheritance has.
>
> DIP66 (https://wiki.dlang.org/DIP66) was already created and
> approved.  Did you have something else in mind?

Given Walter's more recent statements on the matter, it doesn't sound like
it's approved anymore. He's repeatedly compared having multiple alias
this-es to multiple inheritance and expressed that it's a bad idea.

- Jonathan M Davis





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