Copy Constructor DIP

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 22:34:23 UTC 2018


On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 06:50, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/11/2018 11:11 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 07:40:32 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
> >>> But there's a super explicit `@implicit` thing written right there...
> >>> so should we expect that an *explicit* call to the copy constructor
> >>> is not allowed? Or maybe it is allowed and `@implicit` is a lie?
> >>
> >> The @implicit is there to point out that you cannot call that method
> >> explicitly; it gets called for you implicitly when you construct an
> >> object
> >> as a copy of another object.
> >
> > How is this different from other types of constructors or destructors?
>
> The main difference is that the compiler may insert calls to it implicitly.

You mean like ~this(), and op[Anything](), and front() and popFront()
and empty()?
I don't think we need this attribute.


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