C++ compiler does some trickery behind the curtains. besides, you aren't supposed to make such hackish things easily in D. yet you can:
There is nothing hackish in the above code. It's a non-type template parameter and a member function pointer. If I was trying to access the (implementation dependant)vtable pointer in C++ to call the function manually, I may concede to calling it a hack, but there is nothing non-standard about the above code.
D is not C++, and D delegates aren't C++ member function pointers (yet they works nearly the same).
I was simply trying to show that what I wanted to do was possible in a similar language.
I still believe it's a bug in the language. In the original code, both test cases should either both work, or both fail to compile.
I have looked through the D docs online, and can't find anything supporting the argument that this is the intended behaviour of the compiler.
