Struct initialization has no effect or error?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 05:37:57PM +0000, Brett via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> struct X { int a; }
> 
> X[1] x;
> 
> x[0] = {3};
> 
> or
> 
> x[0] = {a:3};
> 
> fails;

This works:

	x[0] = X(123);


> Should the syntax not extend to the case of array assignment?

Arguably it should. But it's mainly cosmetic, since the X(123) syntax
works just fine. (It *is* an incongruity in D's syntax, though. It's not
a big deal once you learn it, but it's a bit counterintuitive the first
time you need to use it.)


> This avoids a double copy.
[...]

Which any modern optimizer would optimize away.


T

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