Singletons, alias this and DMD crashing

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-09 11:48, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> This won't work. You need to be able to overload on static, which you
> can't. I've tried this with opDispatch.

To elaborate. Below is your original with the "foo" method added.

class S
{
    static @property S instance()
    {
       if (_i is null) // #1
          _i = new S();

       return _i;
    }

    static S _i;

    alias instance this;  // #2

    void foo () {}
}

If you try to call it like this: S.foo(), the compiler will complain 
that "foo" need access to "this". The "alias this" won't kick in.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg