Can we drop static struct initializers?
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Nov 20 15:34:10 PST 2009
Bill Baxter wrote:
> Here's one thing I just found:
> struct constructors don't work at compile-time:
>
> struct Struct
> {
> this(int _n, float _x) {
> n = _n; x = _x;
> }
> int n;
> float x;
> }
>
> enum A = Struct(1,2);
>
> // Error: cannot evaluate ((Struct __ctmp1;
> // ) , __ctmp1).this(1,2F) at compile time
>
> The C-style initializer works.
> static opCall works too.
>
> But if that bug is fixed, then I can't think of a reason to have the
> classic C-style no-colons syntax.
It isn't a bug. You simply don't need constructors that progressively
assign parameters to fields.
Struct(1,2);
works just fine without that constructor being defined.
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