Static method conflicts with non-static method?

[so]

On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 11:49:08 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2012 7:34 AM, "so" <so at so.so> wrote:
>>
>> I agree it is ugly. If there is a way out (reason why i 
>> asked), we should
> just dump it.
>
> I don't like the idea either because it is confusing.  The only 
> reason I
> can imagine is if there was polymorphism on statics which I see 
> as a fairly
> useless feature.   I would be interested to hear of possible 
> use cases
> though.

This one is quite important for templates.

struct A(T)
{
    static T mini() { return T.min; }
    static T maxi() { return T.max; }
}

struct B(T)
{
    T[] v;
    T mini() { return min(v); }
    T maxi() { return max(v); }
}

void test(T)(T a)
{
    writeln("min: ", a.mini());
    writeln("max: ", a.maxi());
}