Static members and access attribute

[Aarti_pl]

Lars Kyllingstad pisze:
> Uriel wrote:
>> I've found some strange behaviour with static members and haven't 
>> noticed anything about it in the documentation.
>>
>> module a;
>>
>> class A
>> {
>>     private static int Foo;
>> }
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> import a;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     A.Foo = 1;
>>     writeln(A.Foo);
>>
>> /*        A obj = new A();
>>     obj.Foo = 2;
>>     writeln(A.Foo);
>> */
>> }
>>
>> Program will compile and print '1'. But if uncomment the second part 
>> of code compiler will say that "class a.A member Foo is not accessible".
>> Is this a bug?
> 
> No, that's the way it should be. You get the error because of the line
> 
>   obj.Foo = 2;
> 
> Foo is not available for instances of A. There is only one (global) Foo, 
> namely A.Foo. That's what static means.
> 
> -Lars

I am not sure about what you say... In Java you can access static 
members through objects - you get just warnings. As I said I am not sure 
how it is supposed to be in D.

According to accessing private static member from another module - it is 
bug. Its already in bugzilla.

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)