Bug or not? Statics inside blocks

[Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 01:54:29 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> The snippet below failed to compile (I think) in the latest DMD 
> - but I can't see the error message in the web-based editor at 
> dlang.org. It certainly failed to compile under GDC 5.2.0 when 
> tried out using d.godbolt.org. (Is there any chance of a later 
> GDC compiler there?)
>
> Is it my bug, or a compiler bug? (name clash at link-time?):
>
> void main()
> 	{
> 		{
> 		immutable static dstring str1 = "a";
> 		}
> 		{
> 		immutable static dstring str1 = "b";
> 		}
> 	}

Workaround is just to rename one, assuming that avoids a name 
clash at <xx?phase>-time.