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

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, December 01, 2012 05:42:23 deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 December 2012 at 04:32:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 11/30/2012 3:31 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
> >> If that's the case, then we need to get rid of postblits
> >> entirely.
> > 
> > The only justification I've ever been able to come up with for
> > postblits is implementing a reference counting type.
> 
> Which have to check for null all over the place because it can be
> uninitialized.

That's only an issue with a ref-counting type which is attempting to be non-
nullable. Most shared pointers are nullable, making such checks be required 
regardless. In most cases, I would consider this to be a complete non-issue.

- Jonathan M Davis