D-Programming-Language/phobos — pull request #2399 by Hackerpilot (2014-08-04 23:23:21+00:00)
Title: Eliminate bad use of alias

Quoting Walter: "Looking back on it, 2540 was probably a bad idea, but I think we're stuck with it."
See also: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9597

The less we use this syntax the more we can pretend the change that allowed it never happened.