Class methods in D?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:53:36 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-05-04 16:31, Mehrdad wrote:
>> Oooooh okay, I see. Let me try it. :)
>>
>> @Everyone: Haha thanks for pointing me to the existing libraries. :) I'm
>> doing this more for learning than anything else, so I'm trying to solve
>> these problems myself instead of just using another library.
>>
>> And it seems to be going well:
>>
>> class Window
>> {
>> private static shared tstring classNames[TypeInfo];
>>
>> shared static this() { EnableVisualStyles();
>> RegisterClass(typeid(typeof(this))); }
>
> For classes there's a shourtcut:
>
> this.classinfo;

Not really.  this gets the TypeInfo of the *runtime* type (and BTW,  
classinfo is deprecated IIRC, use typeid(this) instead).  The code Mehrdad  
wrote above gets the TypeInfo of the *static* type.  Not to mention,  
there's no 'this' in a static constructor.

-Steve