function pointer bug?

[bitwise via Digitalmars-d]

> C++ compiler does some trickery behind the curtains. besides, 
> you
> aren't supposed to make such hackish things easily in D. yet 
> you can:

There is nothing hackish in the above code. It's a non-type 
template parameter and a member function pointer. If I was trying 
to access the (implementation dependant)vtable pointer in C++ to 
call the function manually, I may concede to calling it a hack, 
but there is nothing non-standard about the above code.

>>D is not C++, and D delegates aren't C++ member function 
>>pointers (yet they works nearly the same).

I was simply trying to show that what I wanted to do was possible 
in a similar language.

I still believe it's a bug in the language. In the original code, 
both test cases should either both work, or both fail to compile.

I have looked through the D docs online, and can't find anything 
supporting the argument that this is the intended behaviour of 
the compiler.