https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12615

--- Comment #20 from Mike Franklin <slavo5150@yahoo.com> ---
The only reason `alias whetever this` does not use the assignment syntax is that the `alias this = existingname` conflicts with the ability to alias base (i.e. super class) constructors: `alias this = super.this`.  Find a solution to that and we can finally use the assignment syntax for alias this.

See discussions at https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/200 and https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/1341 for greater understanding of the issue.

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Mike Franklin <slavo5150@yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #21 from Mike Franklin <slavo5150@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Franklin from comment #20)

> Find a solution to that and we can finally use the assignment syntax for alias this.

A proposal to resolve the issue was presented at https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/1341#issuecomment-34845297

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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           Priority|P1                          |P4

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