shorter alternative of constructor with parameter

Kapps via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 21 14:25:31 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 17:17:57 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> Dart and few others modern languages support short declaration 
> constructor with parameter:
>
> class Person {
>   String name;
>
>   Person(String name) {
>     this.name = name;
>   }
> }
>
> // Shorter alternative
> class Person {
>   String name;
>
>   // parameters prefixed by 'this.' will assign to
>   // instance variables automatically
>   Person(this.name);
> }
>
> it's there any DIP for adding this future to D?

Personally I'd definitely welcome this syntax. It's an extremely 
common thing to do, prone to typos / bugs, is a simple syntax, 
and is something I'm surprised more languages don't have.


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