Type of receiver

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 09:54:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> When the template this parameter feature was added to the 
> language it was possible to use it for static methods:
>
> class Foo
> {
>     static void foo(this T)()
>     {
>         pragma(msg, T.stringof);
>     }
> }
>
> class Bar : Foo {}
>
> Foo.foo(); // prints "Foo"
> Bar.foo(); // prints "Bar"
>
> For some reason this feature was removed, it might be that it 
> was never indented to work for static methods.
>
> Can we make it work again for static methods? It would be 
> really handy for creating Objective-C bindings.

It was changed in this PR:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1687

It's hard to tell whether it was intentional though. But IMO your 
code should work, so I suggest you file a bug report.