Suicidal objects

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
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> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>
> This thread may be relevant:
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Inheriting_constructors_54088.html
>
> In short, there's no easy way to perform placement new on an existing 
> class, and I view this as a deficiency.  My proposal would provide one 
> easy way to do so, but I still feel that making it automatic would be 
> preferable.

Although I will agree that your solution is much more elegant and 
straightforward.  Tiny modifications that make lots of things possible are 
cool.  Requiring complex metaprogramming to work around deficiencies in the 
language, not so much.