Bug 5884 – Cannot use function named 'init' with class subtyping

class Foo { public: void savestate() { } void loadstate(void*) { } void init2(void*) { } void init(void*) { } } class Bar { private Foo _foo; alias _foo this; this() { _foo = new Foo; } } void main() { auto b = new Bar; b.savestate(); // ok b.loadstate(null); // ok b.init2(null); // ok b.init(null); // Error: no property 'opCall' for type 'test.Foo' } It's a blocker for me because I have a COM interface with a method called "init", and I'm unable to use subtyping in a class that holds a COM object due to this weird bug.

Now I remembered that objects have an .init property. Crap.. so this might not be a bug after all. How would I work around this?

Ok I'm closing this down. I'll just define an "initialize" method which redirects to the COM's init method.