https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12228
--- Comment #7 from yebblies <yebbl...@gmail.com> --- With issue 14348 fixed, all cases from issue 2540 should be replaceable with typeof(this/super). I think we should seriously consider deprecating and eventually removing this behavior. eg Warning: Using 'this' as a type is deprecated, use 'typeof(this)' instead --