How to get the address of a static struct?

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 03:48:17 UTC, FoxyBrown wrote:
> static struct S
>
> auto s = &S; // ?!?!?! invalid because S is a struct, but...
>
> basically s = S. So S.x = s.x and s.a = S.a;
>
> Why do I have to do this?

  Static has a different meaning for struct. More or less it means 
it won't have access to a delegate/fat pointer to the function 
that uses it. It doesn't mean there's only 1 instantiation ever 
(unlike like the static variables). So static is a no-op in this 
case (though still syntactically legal to use).

  To get the address of the struct you STILL have to instantiate 
it first. Although you don't to in order to access it's static 
members.

  Though if all the members are static, it's basically a namespace 
and doing so is kinda pointless.