Time to kill T() as (sometimes) working T.init alias ?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/9/2012 11:06 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 03:53:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/9/2012 2:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> You're basically suggesting that we disallow any idiom which requires that
>>> structs be deep copied, and I think that that's bad policy. It's one thing to
>>> encourage programmers to not write such structs and to use other idioms like
>>> COW or reference counting. It's another thing entirely to disallow them. It's
>>> one of C++'s prime tenets to try and not force the programmer to program in a
>>> certain way or in a certain paradigm, and I think that D should do the same.
>>
>> We already disallow several C++ idioms - like multiple inheritance, using a
>> type as both a value and a reference type, and head const. We believe that
>> these are bad design patterns, despite them being used often in C++.
>>
>
> D didn't removed them, it replaced it with better idioms, that still allow the
> valid uses and make bogus uses less likely.

A lot of people argued very strongly for head const.

> Here we are talking to remove a possibility, without providing something better.