RfC for language feature: rvalue struct
FeepingCreature
feepingcreature at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 11:26:17 UTC 2023
On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 09:29:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 07:46:24 UTC, FeepingCreature
> wrote:
>> Maybe it can be done as a rewrite?
> […]
>> But this is not quite the semantic we actually want because,
>> for instance, the accessors will still run the invariants,
>> which is pointless because we know the fields won't ever
>> change after the constructor call, and also the function call
>> itself is just useless. But that's the interface we want, at
>> least.
>
> Hm, anyway, if you can do it as a rewrite then you should be
> able to implement it in the parser and in the runtime. That way
> you can maintain it even if it isn't added to the core D
> language.
>
> (If you are interested in something like this, just send me an
> email.)
I mean, since it's a *reduction* in capability, it would even be
enough to do it as an audit step. Error on any assignment to a
field in the struct marked with a UDA.
That can't be done before semantic assignment though...
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