member arguments in D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Keep" <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:gt159p$1bq0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>
> Penguin wrote:
>> What do you think about:
>>
>> class Foo {
>>
>>    int a;
>>    float b;
>>
>>    this( member a, member b ) {
>>
>>    }
>>
>> }
>>
>> instead of:
>>
>> class Foo {
>>
>>    int a;
>>    float b;
>>
>>    this( int a, float b ) {
>>       this.a = a;
>>       this.b = b;
>>    }
>>
>> }
>
> I don't know that saving a few (very simple) lines of code is worth
> adding a new keyword and magic behaviour to ctor arguments.
>
> If you really wanted to just do that, you could probably write a mixin
> to take care of it.
>

I just happen to already have such a thing in my bag-o-tricks. See 
attachment.

Usage:
----
mixin(initMember!(someVar));
mixin(initMember!(a, b, c));
----

Turns Into:
----
this.someVar = someVar;
this.a = a;
this.b = b;
this.c = c;
----


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