Is it possible to avoid call to destructor for structs?

[bitwise]

On Monday, 25 September 2017 at 08:39:26 UTC, Adrian Matoga wrote:
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> You shouldn't store the pointer to barBuffer inside Foo. The 
> language allows moving the structure around with a simple 
> memcpy, so _bar is likely to point into garbage soon after it's 
> assigned.

Good point - but it's a mistake ;) 'Foo' is a class in the OP's 
code, so no problem.

> Why don't you just return *cast(Bar*)barBuffer.ptr in bar()?

Lazy construction

> You could still emplace a Bar inside barBuffer in Foo's 
> constructor, if needed.

So you KNOW it's a class then...since structs can't have default 
ctors.. :P