Inline aggregate types

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:31:32PM +0000, Ethan Watson via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> So the invokation, while not as readable, looks like:
> 
> mixin BitPack!( "@PackSize( 3 ) int iSomeInt = 3; @PackSize( 1 ) bool
> bSomeBool = true; @PackSize( 4 ) int iSomeOtherInt;" );
> 
> I'm sure I just made someone cry looking at that.

In cases like these, q{} comes to the rescue:

	mixin BitPack!(q{
		@PackSize( 3 ) int iSomeInt = 3;
		@PackSize( 1 ) bool bSomeBool = true;
		@PackSize( 4 ) int iSomeOtherInt;
	});

See? Not so bad after all. ;-)

(And *that* is why we have a q{} literal in a language that, arguably,
already has far too many ways to write a string literal.)


T

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