std.algorithm.countUntil and alias

[Anton Pastukhov]

On Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 18:39:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 06:10:07PM +0000, Anton Pastukhov via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 18:05:15 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> > 
>> > Its intended and probably the right decision, but good luck 
>> > finding relivent docs.
>> 
>> What's the motivation behind it? For me, it looks like a weird 
>> edge case but I'm just probably missing something here
>
> The key here is to understand that "alias" != "macro".  If 
> you're looking for a way to shorten long expressions, `alias` 
> is not what you're looking for.
>
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> T

Well, I'm looking at Ali's book 
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/alias.html and it states that, among 
other things, aliases are used to shorten long expressions. Not 
sure how authoritative it is tho