Is AliasAssign Now Official?

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 19 August 2021 at 20:16:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 August 2021 at 19:54:09 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 August 2021 at 16:56:22 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 19 August 2021 at 15:24:04 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> okay. But would AliasAssign have ever been proposed if the 
>>>> topic of type functions was not there ?
>>>
>>> In the PR comments Walter thanks Stephen for his work on type 
>>> functions and mentions that it influenced AliasAssign.
>>
>> smart evil
>
> to be honest:
>
> The situation is like we have now a feature nobody gives a shit 
> about.
> While type functions should have been something big and 
> interesting.
>
> I suspect that this feature nobody cares about was motivated by
> the newCTFE failure, which has caused a serious trusting issue 
> in Stefan work.
>
> I cannot be more honnest. This is really what I think.

and obviously I dont expect Walter Bright to answer: "yes you're 
right".
What kind of human being pubicly recognize their errors ?