On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 23:26:44 UTC, rcorre wrote:
Is this just a technical limitation, or is there some other reasoning?
Old bug/misdesign inherited from old D before there were struct constructors. It really should be the rest of the way fixed, but non-static and static methods, including opCall, are still not properly distinguished by the D language.
Type.staticFunction(); // compiles, used to be done to kinda mimic constructors before they were there
obj.staticFunction(); // also compiles, which means a change at this point would be a breaking change
