alias this and initialisation

[Ali Çehreli]

On 5/24/20 6:35 PM, Danni Coy wrote:> can anybody tell me why
 >
 > struct S
 > {
 >      int x;
 >      alias x this;
 > }
 >
 > void test()
 > {
 >      S s;
 >      s = 8; // this works
 >      S s = 8 // but this does not?
 > }

alias this is for implicit conversion, which requires an object to 
convert from. The second case above is about constructing an object.

That's probably why it works that way.

Ali