[Issue 3231] Function declared to return a type with its same name doesn't compile

Thu Aug 6 22:22:06 PDT 2009

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3231

--- Comment #6 from Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com>  2009-08-06 22:22:05 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> The bug was filed as a blocker for the .net implementation because there are
> cases like this System.Text.RegularExpressions that has a static Match
> Match(System.String, System.String) method.
> 
> I think that marking the bug as invalid because of a limitation in the
> implementation is ridiculous.

It's not a limitation in the implementation, it's how the language is defined. 
Java - and by proxy, C#, since MS doesn't seem to have strayed too far from
their "inspiration" - allows for multiple symbols of the same name to be
distinguished based on how they're used.  D does not.  If you have a
disagreement, it's with the spec, not the implementation.

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