Variant confusion

[Jesse Phillips]

On Monday, 11 March 2013 at 14:23:41 UTC, Peter Sommerfeld wrote:
> A confusing example:
> ----------------------------------------
> import std.stdio, std.variant, std.conv;
>
> alias Value = Variant;
> alias List = Value[];	
> alias Map = List[Value];

Oh, the new alias syntax is in?

The problem you are seeing is that Variant can hold anything, 
that incudes a map. But since Variant is just a struct it is a 
different type from struct[struct] which is the type for map.