The pull request of the day: 3998

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 17:58:41 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 17:36:24 UTC, Jonathan wrote:
>> What are some "common uses" for multiple aliasing? I 
>> understand the feature, but curious where it would be commonly 
>> employed.
>>
>> To me, this allows structs to have something like inheritance. 
>> You add a property for another struct that acts like an 
>> interface and alias that struct to the current one. Thoughts?
>
> Multiple inheritance of implementation for structs + implicit 
> casting in one basket

I wish that's what we used it for. More often than not, it's used 
to simulate implicit casting, sometimes with catastrophic results 
in generic code...