Hello,
In this example how can I access the members "read" and "q" of struct Outer from Inner struct?
> struct Outer
> {
> 	ulong q = 1;
>     Inner inner;
> 
>     void read(ulong value)
>     {
>         q += value;
>     }
> 
>     void run()
>     {
>     	q.writeln;
>         read(5);
>     }
> 
>     struct Inner
>     {
>      	void write(string text)
>         {
>             read(text.length);
>             writeln(q);
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> void main()
> {
>     Outer ttt;
>     ttt.run();
> }

During compilation I get:
> onlineapp.d(55): Error: this for read needs to be type Outer not type Inner
> onlineapp.d(56): Error: need this for q of type ulong

On Tuesday, 2 April 2019 at 18:20:09 UTC, Andrey wrote:
> Hello,
> In this example how can I access the members "read" and "q" of struct Outer from Inner struct?
>> struct Outer
>> {
>> 	ulong q = 1;
>>     Inner inner;
>> 
>>     void read(ulong value)
>>     {
>>         q += value;
>>     }
>> 
>>     void run()
>>     {
>>     	q.writeln;
>>         read(5);
>>     }
>> 
>>     struct Inner
>>     {
>>      	void write(string text)
>>         {
>>             read(text.length);
>>             writeln(q);
>>         }
>>     }
>> }
>> 
>> void main()
>> {
>>     Outer ttt;
>>     ttt.run();
>> }
>
> During compilation I get:
>> onlineapp.d(55): Error: this for read needs to be type Outer not type Inner
>> onlineapp.d(56): Error: need this for q of type ulong

After removing the calls to writeln, the error I get is:

> `this` for `read` needs to be type `Outer` not type `Inner`

You cannot access stuff in Outer because Inner objects are not outer objects and don't implicitly own an Outer object. In your Inner method `write`, there is no Outer object present at all to call the method on.

On 2019-04-02 20:44, Q. Schroll wrote:

> After removing the calls to writeln, the error I get is:
> 
>> `this` for `read` needs to be type `Outer` not type `Inner`
> 
> You cannot access stuff in Outer because Inner objects are not outer objects and don't implicitly own an Outer object. In your Inner method `write`, there is no Outer object present at all to call the method on.

It works if the struct is nested inside a function [1]. I thought it would work nested inside a struct too.

[1] https://dlang.org/spec/struct.html#nested

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Tuesday, 2 April 2019 at 18:52:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2019-04-02 20:44, Q. Schroll wrote:
>
>> After removing the calls to writeln, the error I get is:
>> 
>>> `this` for `read` needs to be type `Outer` not type `Inner`
>> 
>> You cannot access stuff in Outer because Inner objects are not outer objects and don't implicitly own an Outer object. In your Inner method `write`, there is no Outer object present at all to call the method on.
>
> It works if the struct is nested inside a function [1]. I thought it would work nested inside a struct too.
>
> [1] https://dlang.org/spec/struct.html#nested

The reason it works inside a function is that the struct has a hidden pointer to the function context. The function's local values actually exist when an object of that struct type is being instantiated.

The main difference between a struct nested in a function and one inside another struct is that the one in a function cannot¹ be created outside of that function while constructing the latter is possible the way you think it is:

Outer.Inner innerObj = Outer.Inner(parameters);

¹ You can using reflection and stuff like that, but it's still broken if it uses the context.