Compiler bug? (alias sth this; and std.signals)

[Joe]

On Thursday, 15 November 2012 at 09:37:55 UTC, eskimo wrote:
>
> But, considering that the alias this triggers only when you are 
> issuing
> an operation not supported by the struct itself, it is pretty 
> reasonable
> behaviour and everything else would be pretty surprising.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Robert

I wonder though why it works at all then, because without the
alias the string conversion *is* supported and produces
"Property(7)".