Static method conflicts with non-static method?

so so at so.so
Fri Apr 27 05:11:48 PDT 2012


On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 11:51:40 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

> The idea I came up with in my proposal 
> (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6579) was to 
> allow aliasing the static method into the instance namespace:
>
> struct S1
> {
>    static void foo() {}
>    alias S1.foo this.foo;
> }
>
> struct S2
> {
>    static void foo() {}
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>    S1 i1;
>    S2 i2;
>    S1.foo(); // ok
>    i1.foo(); // ok
>    S2.foo(); // ok
>    i2.foo(); // error
> }
>
> -Steve

But call site remains unchanged, which was the main reason of 
confusion. If we expect user to read the function declaration 
anyway, an extra alias won't do much good or probably complicate 
it even further.


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