Puzzled

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 19:02:11 UTC, Don Allen wrote:
> 
> I'm probably missing something here, perhaps some important 
> cases where the behavior I'm seeing *does* make sense. I'd be 
> interested in the comments of those who know D (and perhaps 
> C++) better than I do.

Your imagining aliases as words rather than references to 
definitions

As far as I know, aliases are optimized to work with "overload 
sets"
```d
void foo(int);
void foo(bool);

template bar(alias A){}
bar!foo;
```
A is now all foo's, foo's need to exist, and foo mostly pretends 
to stop knowing where it comes from

do:

```d
struct Foo {
     int bar;
     int baz;
}

void bletch(alias field)(int x) {
	field = x;
	writeln("%d", s.field);
}

int main(string[] args)
{
     Foo s;
     bletch!(s.bar);
     bletch!(s.baz);
     return 0;
}
```