Overloading static methods

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-29 16:10, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:j3fi1u$1uge$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> I just got and idea, what about allowing to overload methods based on if
>> they're static or not.
>
>  From my list of 'Andrei' bugs:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3345
>
> It sounds like a good idea, but what are the real use cases and what are the
> corner cases?

In my serialization library, Orange, I want to have a "reset" method 
that is both static and non-static. The static method would reset some 
static variables while the non-static method would reset the instance 
variables.

Another use case is to have a static and non-static opDispatch at the 
same time. I've been playing around with the idea of having something 
similar to Ruby on Rails' activerecord implemented in D. In activerecord 
you can do something like this:

p = Person.find_by_name("Joe")
name = p.name

Both "find_by_name" and "name" are implemented using "method_missing" 
(Ruby's opDispatch). In D, this would require both a static and a 
non-static opDispatch.

I've already mentioned the issue when inside a class/struct and a 
solution, don't know if that counts as a corner case. That's the only 
issue I can think of so far.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg