Who's using structs nested in functions?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Oct 22 07:32:30 PDT 2009


bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
> 
>> With nested structs, however, you can't do much. You can pass them to a 
>> template, but I can't see some solid use cases there. My understanding 
>> is that nested structs have been implemented for completeness and 
>> consistency with nested classes.
>> Any good example of nested struct uses?
> 
> I have used nested static structs sometimes, when I need a struct just inside a function (like the main()) to avoid polluting the outer scope with the struct name.
> 
> Do you want to remove them from D2?
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

I'm asking about non-static nested structs.

Andrei



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