how to have alias this with an unaccessible member?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 18:18:34 timotheecour wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 May 2013 at 14:33:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> > On 05/19/2013 05:34 AM, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> >> Well, there is also opDot:
> > What is the state of opDot? According to the change log, it has
> > been introduced as a part of "Version D 2.013 Apr 22, 2008"
> > with the note "Added opDot, which is experimental only."
> > 
> > I will keep assuming that opDot does not exist. :) (However, it
> > is being used by Unique an Ref in std.typecons.)
> > 
> > Ali
> 
> is there anything you can do with opDot that you can't with alias
> this?
> 
> (aside from the ability to hide the member as being private, as
> raised in the OP; its a bit broken as mentioned 1 post above)
> 
> if not, it should deprecate.

opDot is definitely supposed to be deprecated:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2327

but Daniel Murphy seems to have missed it on his list 
(http://dlang.org/deprecate.html), and it hasn't actually been deprecated yet 
(but then again, even delet hasn't been deprecated yet, so that just goes to 
show how slow we are to deprecate language features that are definitely 
supposed to get the axe).

- Jonathan M Davis