On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 22:45:53 A Guy With a Question via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 22:37:46 UTC, Steven > > Schveighoffer wrote: > > On 11/22/17 5:36 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > >> This allows access to the outer class's members. So you need > >> an instance to instantiate. > >> > >> I bet it's the same for interfaces. > > > > All that being said, the error message is quite lousy. > > > > -Steve > > Yup that worked. Thanks! > > Out of curiosity, what does static mean in that context? When I > think of a static class I think of them in the context of Java or > C# where they can't be instantiated and where they are more like > namespaces that you can't directly import the contents of.
A static, nested class does not have access to the class that it's in. It's basically a normal class that's namespaced within another class, whereas non-static, nested class is associated with a specific instance of the class and has access to that class instance via its outer member. https://dlang.org/spec/class.html#nested http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/nested.html Similarly, if a struct, class, or function is nested within a function, and it is not marked with static, then it has access to the function that it's in, whereas if it's marked with static, then it acts more like a normal struct/class/function and does not have access to the function that it's in and is just namespaced within that function. - Jonathan M Davis
