Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > I think there are certain special situations where you can use > typeof(this). For example, as the return type for a static method. > > *looks for doc* Couldn't find any documentation on it... > > It's somewhat like static this, which is inflexible in how you write it. > > -Steve
It is not documented in detail but it is there =). See: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/declaration.html "1. typeof(this) will generate the type of what this would be in a non-static member function, even if not in a member function. " Therefore it is not special cased, but is supposed to work universally. That it does not work for Nick is probably a bug, not a sensible and thought-out limitation. It can be very handy for Metaprogramming, this needs to get fixed at some point. @Nick: Can you try to deduce a minimal test case? (Or provide the full listing of the code?) Timon
