Structs are Not Plain: A call for empty struct constructors

[Andrea Fontana]

On Friday, 20 September 2019 at 07:24:11 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Friday, 20 September 2019 at 06:01:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> The issue of whether with allows you to construct a temporary 
>> that's valid for the entire scope of the with block is a 
>> separate issue from whether D should be altered to have 
>> default constructors. The OP just happened to use it in their 
>> example, and it does currently seem to work even if the spec 
>> is silent on the matter. Whether it ever gets changed to not 
>> work or the spec gets updated to define its behavior is 
>> irrelevant to the issue of default constructors.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Ok, I agree that the unspecified copy elision semantics is a 
> separate issue.

I wonder why nobody suggest something like this:

class MyClass {}

struct Fixture
{
   int i;
   immutable MyClass c;
}

auto fixture()
{
   Fixture ret =
   {
     i : 10,
     c : new MyClass()
   };

   return ret;
}

void main()
{
   with(fixture())
   {

   }
}

Andrea