Bug?: Presence of "init()" Method Causes std.array.appender to Fail to Compile

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 11:53:44 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 01:20:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Yeah. It's been discussed that it should be illegal to declare 
>> a struct or class member named init, but that change has yet 
>> to happen.
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7066
>
> Walter and Timon have considered redefinition potentially 
> useful. A compromise would be to require `init` and `stringof` 
> to be `static`. That would probably prevent the accidental 
> conflicts that arise with `init`.

Well, Walter mentioned that "so far [no use cases] have 
materialized" in 2012, and I don't think that has changed since.

@disabling .init might be an exception – although one that flirts 
with grey areas in the language definition –, but that could 
still be supported while providing useful diagnostics for other 
uses.

  — David