• Thunderbird (5/5) Sep 13 2015 Some special interest thingamabob:
• anonymous (2/9) Sep 13 2015 no
• Thunderbird (2/11) Sep 13 2015 Thanks for your quick reply :)
• Meta (16/17) Sep 14 2015 To expand on that, alias in D is nothing like the C macro
• Thunderbird (2/20) Sep 15 2015 Thanks for elaborating!

Thunderbird <g10567520 trbvm.com> writes:

Some special interest thingamabob:

I've tried to redefine "else if" as "elif" using "alias elif = 
else if;". No matter what to no avail.

I know this is probably useless fancy stuff, but is there any way 
to get this done without much ado?

anonymous <anonymous example.com> writes:

On Sunday 13 September 2015 21:47, Thunderbird wrote:

 Some special interest thingamabob:
 
 I've tried to redefine "else if" as "elif" using "alias elif = 
 else if;". No matter what to no avail.
 
 I know this is probably useless fancy stuff, but is there any way 
 to get this done without much ado?

no

Thunderbird <g10567520 trbvm.com> writes:

On Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 19:51:38 UTC, anonymous wrote:
 On Sunday 13 September 2015 21:47, Thunderbird wrote:

 Some special interest thingamabob:
 
 I've tried to redefine "else if" as "elif" using "alias elif = 
 else if;". No matter what to no avail.
 
 I know this is probably useless fancy stuff, but is there any 
 way to get this done without much ado?

 no

Thanks for your quick reply :)

Meta <jared771 gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 19:52:20 UTC, Thunderbird wrote:
 Thanks for your quick reply :)

To expand on that, alias in D is nothing like the C macro 
preprocessor. D specifically disallows tricks like `#define true 
false`. In D, aliases are just another name for a symbol. Ex:

struct Test
{
     int n;
     float f;
}

alias IntFloat = Test; //IntFloat is just another name for Test

Test t = Test(0, 1.0);
IntFloat inf = IntFloat(0, 1.0);

//Test and IntFloat are NOT separate types.
//Use std.typecons.Typedef for that
assert(t == inf);
assert(is(typeof(t) == typeof(inf));

Thunderbird <g10662608 trbvm.com> writes:

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 07:11:38 UTC, Meta wrote:
 On Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 19:52:20 UTC, Thunderbird wrote:
 Thanks for your quick reply :)

 To expand on that, alias in D is nothing like the C macro 
 preprocessor. D specifically disallows tricks like `#define 
 true false`. In D, aliases are just another name for a symbol. 
 Ex:

 struct Test
 {
     int n;
     float f;
 }

 alias IntFloat = Test; //IntFloat is just another name for Test

 Test t = Test(0, 1.0);
 IntFloat inf = IntFloat(0, 1.0);

 //Test and IntFloat are NOT separate types.
 //Use std.typecons.Typedef for that
 assert(t == inf);
 assert(is(typeof(t) == typeof(inf));

Thanks for elaborating!