http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2416 ------- Comment #1 from terranium at yandex.ru 2008-10-14 03:34 ------- typedef as subtype of const(char)[] just "inherits" methods of its supertype including opSlice :) which is defined as const(char)[] opSlice(size_t, size_t) --