[Issue 13204] New: recursive alias declaration

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13204

          Issue ID: 13204
           Summary: recursive alias declaration
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: diagnostic, rejects-valid, spec
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: mrmocool at gmx.de

struct ABase(uint v)
{
    alias whatever = Foo;
}

alias A1 = ABase!1; // L6
alias Foo = A1;

$ dmd -c test.d
test.d(6): Error: alias ddraw.A1 recursive alias declaration
test.d(6): Error: template instance ddraw.ABase!1u error instantiating


Not sure if it's supposed to work.
At least it compiles when not using a template.
And the error message could be more helpful. This one was hard to figure out.

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