Using static properties and methods of variable in its own initializer

[Dejan Lekic]

On Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at 19:47:43 UTC, Dave P. wrote:
> In my opinion, it should be fine to refer to static properties 
> or methods and so
> ```d
> void main(){
>     size_t y = y.sizeof;
> }
> ```
> should work, but because of how this was implemented it does 
> slightly change the semantics if you happen to shadow a global.
>
> Should this be fixed? or is this the intended design of the 
> language?

Is this not good enough for you?
```d
void main(){
    size_t y = size_t.sizeof;
}
```

In short, types few properties too, .sizeof being one of them. 
Other properties are .alignof and .init . More about it: 
https://dlang.org/spec/property.html#type