There are some issues with mixing opDispatch and property syntax. Try:
base.items().printValue( true );
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"Daniel L. Alves" wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I don't know if this is really a bug or some gotcha of the language that I
> don't get. I'm sorry if it happens to be the later.
>
> When I run this simple program
>
> class DispatchBase
> {
>auto opDispatch( string m, Args... )( Args args )
>{
>writefln( "Tried to call %s", m );
>return this;
>}
> }
>
> class DispatchDerived : DispatchBase
> {
>void printValue( T )( T value )
>{
>writefln( "Value is %s", value );
>}
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>DispatchBase base = new DispatchDerived();
>base.items.printValue( true );
> }
>
> I receive this output
>
> Tried to call items
> Tried to call printValue
>
> But what I was expecting is
>
> Tried to call items
> Value is true
>
> After all, opDispatch returns 'this'. The interesting thing is that when I
> move opDispatch up to DispatchDerived, everything works fine. It's like
> 'this'
> inside opDispatch didn't recognize its real type when in a base class.
>
> Hope you can help me.
> Daniel
