Does D have too many features?

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/29/12, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> struct S
> {
>     int field1;
>     float field2;
>     string field3;
> }
> then you can do
>
> auto s = S(5, 7.2, "hello");
>
> The ability to do
>
> S s = {5, 7.2, "hello"};
>
> gains you _nothing_.

That's not really the benefit of those initializers. This is:

S[] arr = [{field2 = 1.0}, {field2 = 0.5}];

It's a real benefit when unittesting because it allows me to quickly
create variables with some interesting state which I can then test.