Growing a Language (applicable to @attribute design)

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 03:06:29 PST 2012


On 2012-43-14 11:11, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 11/14/2012 1:49 AM, renoX wrote:
>> That's not strictly true: type inference works better for built-in  
>> types than
>> for user-defined types, with "auto x = 1;" x is an int, how do I have  
>> the same
>> type of syntax for MyInt?
>
> You can have user-defined literals in D:
>
>     auto x = MyInt(1);
>

But the syntax for built-in types is better, in that you don't need to
write:

auto x = int(1);

-- 
Simen


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