Overloading static methods

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 30 04:53:15 PDT 2011


On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:59:22 -0400, Daniel Murphy  
<yebblies at nospamgmail.com> wrote:

> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:op.v0zckubyeav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
>>
>> My opinion is that static methods should *not* be callable from an
>> instance, you should need typeof(instance).staticMethod.  The current
>> allowance is misleading.
>>
>> This should solve some of the issues, but of course, you'd need to allow
>> overloading of the method name in static and non-static forms.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> I like this idea.  Is there a bugzilla entry for it?

I'll add it, if it's not already there.

-Steve


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