DIP 1031--Deprecate Brace-Style Struct Initializers--Community Review Round 1 Discussion

[aliak]

On Friday, 14 February 2020 at 14:46:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
>
> I can think of a solution though, just have a substitute for 
> the real name of the type for struct initializers. In other 
> words, this is not a function call, and does not have possible 
> overloads. Something like:
>
> Foo f = Foo(ber: auto(a: 42, b: 84));
>
> It's not as terse, but circumvents for the most part the issue 
> of long names.
>

I really like that.

I just got a glimpse of Andre's issue [0] and deprecating brace 
initialization really is going to put a big blotch on that code 
of his. And the workaround suggested looks really bad :( 
Especially considering the file is long, the number of AWS types 
are HUGE and having aliases like

alias A = AnAwsType
alias B = AnotherAwsType
.
.
.
/// Really not scalable...

[0] https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/169#issuecomment-532830320