http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=830 ------- Comment #3 from tomas at famolsen.dk 2007-01-11 07:50 ------- your instance of A is null This should work: void main(char[][] args) { class A { static int v = 1; int getv() { return v; } } A a = new A; assert (a.getv() == 1); } --