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digitalmars.D - silly question: why can't i alias an expression?

reply dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> writes:
why is something like that not possible? (except the missing langauge 
feature thing)

could it be a nice extension?

double A,B;
alias ( A + B * 10 ) my_expression;
double C = my_expression;
Apr 05 2009
parent BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:
Reply to dennis,


 why is something like that not possible? (except the missing langauge
 feature thing)
 
 could it be a nice extension?
 
 double A,B;
 alias ( A + B * 10 ) my_expression;
 double C = my_expression;



You can only alias things that at some level are symbols. In effect an alias 
is a link (as in soft/hard link) in the symbol table.
Apr 06 2009