Why doesn't this have a length?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 03/12/2012 08:59 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Magnus Lie Hetland:
>
>> Am I doing something illegal?-)
>
> It looks legal. As usual I suggest to minimize the code, and show
> us the reduced case that shows the problem :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Let's please also see the exact error message. "an error message that 
seems to indicate that DMD is looking for a global identifier" is not 
clear to mortals like myself. :)

Ali