Re: Why simple code using Rebindable doesn't compile ?

[Alex Parrill via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 10:09:19 UTC, chmike wrote:
This code compile, but array appending doesn't work
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alias Rebindable!(immutable(InfoImpl)) Info;

class InfoImpl
{
    void foo() {}
    static immutable(InfoImpl) info()
    {
        __gshared immutable InfoImpl x = new immutable InfoImpl;
        return x;
    }
}


void main()
{
    Info t = Info.info;
    Info[] a;
    //a ~= Info.info; <--  KO Compiler Error
    a ~= rebindable(Info.info); // Ok
}
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Why can't info() return a Rebindable!(immutable(InfoImpl)) ?

What do you mean? `info` returns an `immutable(InfoImpl)`, not a 
`Rebindable!(immutable(InfoImpl))`. Rebindable doesn't apply 
itself to the return types of the methods of the return types 
(there's no reason to).