Struct with default ctor (Was: [dmd-beta] dmd 2.064 beta take 2)

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 09:14:30 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 5/18/2013 12:08 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On 5/17/13, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> I oppose this. D has a lot of nice features because of the .init  
>>> property.
>>> Default constructors wreck that.
>>
>> So much great feature like :
>>   - null all over the place.
>>   - Having NUllable and NonNullable in phobos. BTW, NonNullable is  
>> unable to
>> ensure that it if effectively non nullable.
>>   - Having to check for .init state all over the place (which have a  
>> runtime
>> cost, in addition to be error prone). RefCounted implementation is  
>> emblematic of
>> that.
>
> What default would you use for non-null pointers?

Damnit, I thought we'd gotten through to you. non-null pointers have no
default, and it is a compile-time error not to initialize them.

-- 
Simen