When D feels unfinished: union initialization and NRVO

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2020-03-20 13:27, Mathias Lang wrote:

> But you can't deal with user-provided types. You'll have to blindly cast 
> away to mutable to make it work. 

Yes.

> And from my experience, ignoring the 
> type system always comes back to bite you at one point or another.

Possibly, but I think in this case it's fine.

Static initialization cannot be used if the struct has a constructor 
defined.

In my serialization library, Orange [1], I'm both casting away 
immutable/const and bypass any constructors.

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange

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/Jacob Carlborg