On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:32:10 -0400, Timon Gehr <timon.g...@gmx.ch> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I think there are certain special situations where you can use
typeof(this). For example, as the return type for a static method.
*looks for doc* Couldn't find any documentation on it...
It's somewhat like static this, which is inflexible in how you write it.
-Steve
It is not documented in detail but it is there =).
See: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/declaration.html
"1. typeof(this) will generate the type of what this would be in a
non-static
member function, even if not in a member function. "
D'oh! I must have skipped over that page.
Therefore it is not special cased, but is supposed to work universally.
That it does not work for Nick is probably a bug, not a sensible and
thought-out
limitation. It can be very handy for Metaprogramming, this needs to get
fixed at
some point.
@Nick: Can you try to deduce a minimal test case? (Or provide the full
listing of
the code?)
I agree with all of this, I think it should work, judging from that
documentation.
-Steve
