Can call static method with null reference

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:30:11 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-06-22 23:51, Timon Gehr wrote:
> > If that is the only problem then the solution is to allow overloading on
> > static, which is easy to do.
> 
> You still need to call the static method on the class/struct if there's
> an ambiguity.

I would have thought that that was obvious, and I fail to see why that would 
be a problem. The only risk I see in allowing static and non-static functions 
to be overloaded, is that if you have static function being called with an 
instance, and you add a non-static overload, then the code would silently 
change to call the non-static function. But we have that exact same problem 
with UFCS and member functions as it is, and that wouldn't break any existing 
code (since you can't overload on static right now). It would just be a future 
risk of breaking code.

- Jonathan M Davis