Is AliasAssign Now Official?

Paul Backus snarwin at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 15:36:00 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 19 August 2021 at 15:24:04 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>
> okay. But would AliasAssign have ever been proposed if the 
> topic of type functions was not there ?

Possibly. The question that lead to type functions being proposed 
in the first place was "what can we do about the overhead of 
recursive templates?" Several possible answers were proposed, 
including type functions, full AST macros, enhancements to CTFE, 
and AliasAssign.


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