On 8/30/11 7:34 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:53:15 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer
<schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:59:22 -0400, Daniel Murphy
<yebbl...@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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My opinion is that static methods should *not* be callable from an
instance, you should need typeof(instance).staticMethod. The current
allowance is misleading.
This should solve some of the issues, but of course, you'd need to
allow
overloading of the method name in static and non-static forms.
-Steve
I like this idea. Is there a bugzilla entry for it?
I'll add it, if it's not already there.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6579
-Steve
I'll note that calls of static methods for instances has been a boon to
generic programming in C++. People could call a method and it was up to
the implementation whether it was static or not.
We don't have as big a problem in D due to introspection. I fear,
however, that we'll need to add static if (...) obj.method(); else
typeof(obj).method();
I don't see an improvement.
Andrei
