Combining variadic functions with class templates

[Simen kjaeraas]

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm all new to D (coming from C++), and currently playing around with  
> the language. I'm using DMD 2.049 and was expecting this to compile:
>
> struct Vector(alias N,T)
> {
>      Vector(T[N] v ...) {

This is not a constructor, but a malformed function. In D, constructors
bear the name 'this'[1].


> What's wrong with the above code? Can member functions / constructors  
> not be variadic? Is is not allowed to use template argument N in static  
> array variadic function arguments?

The error is, as said above, the name of your constructor. This leads to
a less-than-readable error message, which ultimately is trying to tell
you what I'm saying.

[1]: http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/struct.html#Struct-Constructor

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Simen