https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13806
Issue ID: 13806 Summary: std.bitmanip.BitArray -- use of methods named init() messes up templates Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Windows Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: Phobos Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: erikas.aub...@gmail.com It seems to be pretty common and accepted practice to use the static init field to get default values of an arbitrary templated type--however this pattern will fail hard on types like BitArray that have methods name init(), and no overloads that can be called without parameters. It'd make life a lot easier if these methods could be renamed to something like initialize(). --