Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:39 -0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 02.06.2012 14:39, Kevin Cox wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 6:38 AM, "bearophile" mailto:bearophileh...@lycos.com>> wrote: > > Jonathan M Davis: > > >> Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function with an >> ob

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-06 Thread Regan Heath
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:25:05 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 6/2/12, Jonathan M Davis wrote: The trick is getting Walter to agree. The trick is getting all the people that bought TDPL to burn their books, because by the time all these new changes are set in place the book will have as mu

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-06 Thread Regan Heath
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:23:50 +0100, Jonathan M Davis wrote: ...and probably the same for C#, though I'm not sure No, in C# you cannot call a static member function with a class instance, see "Static Members": "A static method, field, property, or event is callable on a class even when n

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-06-02 19:59, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, June 02, 2012 18:40:38 Jacob Carlborg wrote: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3345 Ah, there it is! I was _sure_ that a report for it existed, but I couldn't find it (probably because I was searching for overload and didn't

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 6/2/12, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > The trick is getting Walter to agree. The trick is getting all the people that bought TDPL to burn their books, because by the time all these new changes are set in place the book will have as much dead weight to it as dsource.org. It specifically says on page

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 08:41:17 H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 01:23:50AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > [...] > > > Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function > > with an object and that you had to explicitly use the class, but > > that's not the way tha

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 18:40:38 Jacob Carlborg wrote: > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3345 Ah, there it is! I was _sure_ that a report for it existed, but I couldn't find it (probably because I was searching for overload and didn't think to search for name). - Jonathan M Dav

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 14:49:39 Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > Generic programming benefits from it in certain scenarios This is brought up periodically, and I don't really buy it. _Maybe_ there's a scenario where it would help, but typeof makes it trivial to get the type so that you can call a s

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-06-02 10:06, Namespace wrote: Is that a joke? :D This Code throw the error, that a call of "Load" matches both functions. How is that possible? Even in php that works fine. Any workarounds? I can not believe that such a simple error still exists in D. [code] import std.stdio; class Foo

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 01:23:50AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] > Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function > with an object and that you had to explicitly use the class, but > that's not the way that it is in D, C++, and Java (and probably the > same for C#, though

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 02.06.2012 14:39, Kevin Cox wrote: On Jun 2, 2012 6:38 AM, "bearophile" mailto:bearophileh...@lycos.com>> wrote: > > Jonathan M Davis: > > >> Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function with an >> object and that you had to explicitly use the class, > > > I agr

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Kevin Cox
On Jun 2, 2012 6:38 AM, "bearophile" wrote: > > Jonathan M Davis: > > >> Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function with an >> object and that you had to explicitly use the class, > > > I agree. > > Bye, > bearophile Same here, D 3.0?

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: Personally, I wish that it weren't legal to call a static function with an object and that you had to explicitly use the class, I agree. Bye, bearophile

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Namespace
On Saturday, 2 June 2012 at 08:24:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, June 02, 2012 10:14:51 Zhenya wrote: I'm not sure, but it seems that this is a bug. It's not. If nothing else, it's perfectly legal to call a static function with an instance. e.g. class C { static void func(

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Zhenya
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Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Saturday, June 02, 2012 10:14:51 Zhenya wrote: > I'm not sure, but it seems that this is a bug. It's not. If nothing else, it's perfectly legal to call a static function with an instance. e.g. class C { static void func() {} } auto c = new C; c.func(); So, that creates an ambiguity if a

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 02.06.2012 12:06, Namespace wrote: Is that a joke? :D This Code throw the error, that a call of "Load" matches both functions. How is that possible? Even in php that works fine. Any workarounds? I can not believe that such a simple error still exists in D. [code] import std.stdio; class Foo

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Zhenya
I'm not sure, but it seems that this is a bug.

Re: Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Zhenya
On Saturday, 2 June 2012 at 08:06:57 UTC, Namespace wrote: Is that a joke? :D This Code throw the error, that a call of "Load" matches both functions. How is that possible? Even in php that works fine. Any workarounds? I can not believe that such a simple error still exists in D. [code] impo

Static function conflicts with Non-Static?!

2012-06-02 Thread Namespace
Is that a joke? :D This Code throw the error, that a call of "Load" matches both functions. How is that possible? Even in php that works fine. Any workarounds? I can not believe that such a simple error still exists in D. [code] import std.stdio; class Foo { public: static Foo Load()