`static` function ... cannot access variable in frame of ...

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 22:23:27 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 18:43:43 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>> The two calls are not equivalent.
>
>> so what is passed as alias need to be static too.
>
> Thanks all. I thought a static member function just isn't able 
> to access the instance of the struct, but as I understand now 
> it is static all the way.
>
> What I am looking for is a way to have different structs that 
> have a member function that has the same name in all of them, 
> that is callable without a this pointer, and able to take an 
> alias argument. That is probably asking too much.


As a workaround, you can alias the outer function in the struct:

```d
struct S
{
     alias foo = S_foo;
}
```

This might be less than ideal, but at least it works.

-Steve