Still unresolved (Was: D1->D2 member call syntax regression?)

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Jul 28 12:49:08 PDT 2010


"Don" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:i2q0un$2hud$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> It still leaves the question though, "Why isn't that working in D2? Bug 
>> or legitimate reason?".
>>
>> Jonathan suggested it was deliberate because of the hidden "this" 
>> parameter, but I'm not convinced because 1) D1 has the hidden "this" 
>> param too, but it handles it just fine, and 2) It's just a syntactical 
>> issue, so I don't see how semantics could be a problem unless there's 
>> some other change in D2 that causes a conflict or ambiguity with that 
>> feature.
>>
>> In any case, the error message seems to indicate that, deliberate or not, 
>> it's likely some sort of symbol-lookup/visibility issue.
>>
>>
> It worked in 2.012 and earlier, but failed in 2.020. I don't have any 
> intermediate versions installed.

I've gone ahead and filed a bug report:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4525




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