Intended behavior or bug (private vs public static)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, November 07, 2014 05:43:28 Andre via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> following code fails with errors:
> class test.A member b is not accessible
>
> I am not sure, whether it should work or not?
>
> Kind regards
> André
>
> module app;
> import test;
>
> void main()
> {
>   A.b("");
> }
>
> module test;
>
> class A
> {
>   private void b(){}
>   static void b(string b){}
> }

That looks like a bug. All you have to do is change the order of the two
function declarations or rename the non-static one to something else, and it
compiles. So, somehow, the fact that the non-static one has the same name as
the static one and the fact that it comes first screws up accessing the
static one. And explicitly marking the static one as public doesn't help.
So, you should report is a compiler bug:

https://issues.dlang.org

- Jonathan M Davis