static this

[Max Samuha]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:40:46 -0400, "Chris Miller"
<chris at dprogramming.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:01:09 -0400, Max Samuha <maxter at i.com.ua> wrote:
>
>> Two questions to the community:
>>
>> 1. The following is obviously a bug?
>>
>> class Test
>> {
>> 	static
>> 	{
>> 		this(){}; // defined not as static constructor but as
>> instance constructor
>>
>> 		... more static members here		
>> 	}
>> }
>
>I also asked about this before and it's not a bug, "static" and "this" are  
>supposed to be together, like static assert.
>

Then the compiler should definitely disallow 'this' in a static block
giving a good compile time error message?

>>
>> 2. Why module constructor must be attributed with static? All module
>> level methods are already static so the attribute seems to be
>> redundant. Make it optional?
>
>I guess you're right; my suggestion was to rename main() to this()  :)

There may be 'this' in different modules. How the entry point would be
determined then? Or please give me a link to the thread where your
suggestion was discussed.