On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:33:43 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
The one possible exception I can think of (and I'm not even sure if it's
applicable to D or not) is if you're passed an instance of something and
want to call a static member of it polymorphically. Without polymorphism
you
can just do "typeof(instance).staticFunc()", but I'm not sure offhand
whether or not there's a way to do that polymorphically (or if static
members can even be polymorphic).
They can't. So the only reason for static members to be available from an
instance is to avoid typeof( T ).
The presence of this feature does not bother me, but I feel the right
thing would be to axe it.
--
Simen
