On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 18:16:44 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
[...]
It seems to me this should just work.
Thanks!
--Bastiaan.
The two calls are not equivalent. To be equivalent you need to
set `S_foo` static too, otherwise `S_Foo` is instanciated in
`main` scope, proof:
```d
import std.stdio;
struct S
{
static void foo(alias len)()
{
writeln(len);
}
}
static void S_foo(alias len)()
{
writeln(len);
}
void main()
{
const five = 5;
S_foo!five; // Error too now
S.foo!five; // Error
}
```
so what is passed as alias need to be static too.
But to be frank, I agree this is a less ideal situation. There
are like 20 bugs reports opened related to that. The way a
non-static `S_foo` behaves is under-specified.
