On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Seb via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 06:44:28 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:

why is `a.init` even legal? (instead of typeof(a).init)
likewise the following compiles, but IMO should not:
class A{ void fun(this a){}}
(instead we should have typeof(this)

How about deprecating these lax syntaxes?
they serve no purpose (we should use typeof(...)) and can cause harm
in generic code

Yes, good idea!