DMD 0.177 release

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Dec 13 10:16:39 PST 2006


Mark Wrenn wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:21:37 -0500, Chris Miller wrote:
> 
> "We know structs weren't meant to have true constructors and destructors.
> We have an aesthetically pleasing way to initialize structs, so what's the
> problem. If your friend asks if structs have constructors, you say no, but
> since the langauge is so expressive, you have this feature called opCall
> that makes it just as nice to initialize."
> 
> *Amen*

If structs do add destructors, this can will be reopened - and by that 
time it will be much more smellier.

Andrei



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