Re: Static method conflicts with non-static method?

[so]

On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 11:49:08 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:

On Apr 27, 2012 7:34 AM, "so" <s...@so.so> wrote:

I agree it is ugly. If there is a way out (reason why i asked), we should

just dump it.

I don't like the idea either because it is confusing. The only reason I can imagine is if there was polymorphism on statics which I see as a fairly useless feature. I would be interested to hear of possible use cases

though.

This one is quite important for templates.

struct A(T)
{
   static T mini() { return T.min; }
   static T maxi() { return T.max; }
}

struct B(T)
{
   T[] v;
   T mini() { return min(v); }
   T maxi() { return max(v); }
}

void test(T)(T a)
{
   writeln("min: ", a.mini());
   writeln("max: ", a.maxi());
}