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

[Petar]

On Sunday, 16 February 2020 at 15:24:26 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote:
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> The only thing that ever annoyed me about struct literals is 
> that they don't work everywhere.

I completely agree. I have several developers on my team with 
mostly JavaScript/TypeScript background, and it would be quite 
difficult to introduce D to them without the relatable (and also 
people for coming from C) struct literal syntax.

These days is quite rare to find a JS/TS project that doesn't 
make a heavy use of this feature:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment

https://javascript.info/destructuring-assignment

If accepting the named parameters proposal meant that we could 
simply replace braces with parentheses, I'd onboard with DIP1031, 
but not before.

(Of course that would involve a semantic change, as currently the 
brace literal syntax works only for initializing structs without 
constructors and named parameters are meant to invoke either the 
user defined constructor or the default synthesized one.)