Error: constructor Foo.this default constructor for structs only allowed with @disable, no body, and no parameters

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 13:23:58 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> struct Fence
> {
> 	VkFence	fence;
> 	alias fence this;
>
> 	 static struct CreateInfo
> 	{
> 		 VkFenceCreateInfo	ci;
> 		 alias ci this;
> 		 this(
> 		       )
> 		{
> 		 ci = typeof(ci)(
> 		 cast(typeof(ci.sType))StructureType.eFenceCreateInfo,
> 		 null,
> 		 0);
> 		 }
> 	 }
> }
>
> I'm not quite sure what this error is saying. Is it that the 
> only struct constructor that can have no parameters is @disable 
> this(){} ?
>
> If so this is rather annoying as I have to create a new code 
> path for the generation of this and 7 other structs. What must 
> the code be in this case?
>
>  static struct CreateInfo
> {
> 		 VkFenceCreateInfo	ci = 
> VkFenceCreateInfo(cast(typeof(ci.sType))StructureType.eFenceCreateInfo,null,0);
> 		 alias ci this;
> }
> ?

"Solved" by having a default parameter. Results in a deprecation 
but w/e.