Re: Purpose of template DECLARE_HANDLE in druntime

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On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 20:51:37 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
Hi,
I noticed in druntime this template is used often:

package template DECLARE_HANDLE(string name, base = HANDLE) {
    mixin ("alias " ~ base.stringof ~ " " ~ name ~ ";");

The disadvantage is, IDEs like IntelliJ are not able to find 
the symbols using this template e.g.
mixin DECLARE_HANDLE!("SC_HANDLE");

What is the benefit of this template?
Why can't we just use
alias HANDLE SC_HANDLE;

Kind regards
Andre

Have you tried changing it to alias and check whether the 
testsuite still passes?
Druntime is a bit old, so I wouldn't be too surprised if this is 
an old relict.