On 9 apr 2012, at 23:24, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 4/9/12, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I believe the error message is correct.
>
> I don't know about that. in TDPL p197 it says:
> "If you use an object instead of the class name when accessing a
> static member, that's fine, too.:
> auto c = (new Widget).someStaticMember"
>
> It would naturally follow that using 'this' for static members would
> be ok as well. Why break code now?
I know that is currently allowed but I don't think it should be allowed. This
would make it possible to overload on static, i.e.
class Foo
{
static void foo () {}
void foo () {}
}
--
/Jacob Carlborg
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