At compile time

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, bearophile<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley:
>> I don't think you can call struct methods at compile-time.  Kind of
>> lame, I know.  Try making norm a free function.
>
> I see. It's a significant limitation, that curiously G++ doesn't share.

I don't think your C++ code is doing what you think it's doing.  I'm
pretty sure the C++ code:

const V3 v(V3(-0.5, -0.65, 0.9).norm());

is equivalent to the following D code:

const V3 v;
static this() { v = V3(-0.5, -0.65, 0.9).norm(); }

C++ has static initialization that occurs before main() too.  It's
just.. hidden.