https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24717
--- Comment #14 from Max Samukha <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Manu from comment #13) > Ah yes, good point. I also had an encounter with that exact surprise about 2 > days ago aswell. > I couldn't work out how to explain that... I just had to shake me head and > move on. The same logic as that of alias - the reference is resolved to a contextless symbol, and then the implicit 'this' is used as the context. struct S { int x; void foo() { alias y = S.x; auto z = y; // `z` is resolved to `this.x`; } } (Disclaimer: I'm not defending the "symbol" nonsense). --
