Any way to reproduce Dart style constructors?

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 25 May 2017 at 11:31:43 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 05/25/2017 12:52 PM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
>> Be aware, though, that constructors mixed in via a mixin 
>> template behave differently with regards to overloading[1].
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11500
>
> Of course it couldn't be that simple :(
>
> Adam's workaround (`alias __ctor = mixin_thing.__ctor;`) might 
> be workable, though.
>
> If that makes the usage too verbose, then a string mixin is the 
> way to go, I guess. It's immune to issue 11500, but 
> AutoConstructor isn't as nice to look at:
>
> ----
> static string AutoConstructor(fields ...)()
> {
>     [...]
> }
> ----
>
> Weird: AutoConstructor needs to be static. Doesn't make sense 
> to me. Looks like a compiler bug.

Nice. If you look at my initial reply to OP you'll see that I 
mentioned that error and I worked around it differently (worse 
than you). Didn't know that static would fix that (and I don't 
understand why it does), but thanks for the info!