Only const or immutable class thread local variables are allowed

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

Hello all,

I have a challenge, which is this: I'd like to have a public property which will 
return a reference to an internally stored class instance.

     ref MyClass myProperty() @property
     {
         ...
     }

However, this runs into a problem: I can't use "static" to internally store a 
class instance.

I worked out a cheaty way to get around this which goes like this:

     ref MyClass myProperty() @property
     {
         struct MyCheat
         {
             MyClass whatIReallyWant = new MyClass;
         }

         static MyCheat cheat;
         // ... do other stuff ...
         return cheat.whatIReallyWant;
     }

... but I'm wondering if anyone has any alternative suggestions (or warnings or 
caveats about the cheaty method).

Thanks & best wishes,

     -- Joe