struct init() method

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/25/2012 04:52 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:23:21PM +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> On 25-02-2012 05:05, bearophile wrote:
>>> This program comes from a reduction of a bug I've found:
>>>
>>>
>>> struct Foo {
>>>      void init() {}
>>> }
>>> void main() {
>>>      Foo*[] foos;
>>>      //(*foos[0]).init(); // OK
>>>      foos[0].init(); // Error: function expected before (), not null of type Foo*
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think about the idea of not allowing methods named init() in structs? (Especially if they are a @property). Or maybe there is a better solution, opinions welcome.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>> IMHO we shouldn't allow having *any* members that use the same name
>> as any of the compiler-provided properties/functions.
> [...]
>
> Agreed.
>
>
> T
>

This is useful:

struct S{
     @disable enum init = 0;
}