JMRyan: > Is this a bug in the compiler (v.2.047)? Am I missing something in > thinking it shouldn't be? I think it's not a bug. It's not a common need, but a method may way want to swap this with another. In Phobos this is done on a struct, see: http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d#L324 Bye, bearophile