[Issue 2202] Error getting type of non-static member of a class

[Max Samukha]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:31:13 -0400, "Jarrett Billingsley"
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>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2202
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>> ------- Comment #6 from samukha at voliacable.com  2008-07-09 00:21 -------
>>> It's supposed to take an expression. C.x is an expression.
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>> C.x is not a valid expression?
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>What's it supposed to give?  It's an instance variable.  It's syntactically 
>an expression, but semantically it makes no sense, it has no value.
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Sometimes I just fail to express myself. I should have asked "C.x is
not a valid expression, is it?", or better: "C.x is an invalid
expression, isn't it?"  Or something like that.

>Interestingly, &C.method works.  Thankfully.  Hope that never breaks.  But 
>that's maybe because functions are statically allocated, unlike instance 
>variables. 
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I rely on &C.method too.