Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, June 02, 2012 10:14:51 Zhenya wrote:
> I'm not sure, but it seems that this is a bug.

It's not. If nothing else, it's perfectly legal to call a static function with 
an instance. e.g.

class C
{
    static void func() {}
}

auto c = new C;
c.func();

So, that creates an ambiguity if a static and non-static function could have 
the same name. Now, it could just assume that the instance was meant in this 
case, but it doesn't work that way. It's just illegal to overload a static 
function with a non-static function.

Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function with an 
object and that you had to explicitly use the class, but that's not the way 
that it is in D, C++, and Java (and probably the same for C#, though I'm not 
sure).

- Jonathan M Davis