Can now use alias for collapsing multiple fields in nested structs
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Dec 28 19:21:43 UTC 2024
It's commonplace in C and C++ to use something like:
```
#define ti t.i
s.ti
```
as a shortcut for cutting through layers of struct declarations. Now `alias` can
do it, too!
This now works:
```
struct T {
int k,i = 2;
}
struct S {
int x;
T t;
alias ti = t.i;
}
void main() {
T t = T(1, 2);
S s;
assert(s.ti == 2);
}
```
`alias` has evolved from simply `typedef` into quite the multi-tool!
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/20611
Manu suggested this.
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