Static struct initialization syntax behavior & it being disabled upon adding a constructor

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 08:22:26AM +0000, cc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 03:21:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Structs in D ought to be treated like "glorified ints", as Andrei
> > puts it. If you need complex ctors and complex methods, that's a
> > sign you should be using a class instead.
> 
> Unless you're having a nice quiet get-together with friends, and you
> don't want to invite the GC, the biggest loudest party animal on the
> block.  Phobos's RefCounted seems to stretch the definition of
> "glorified ints"..

"Glorified int" includes pass-by-value types like pointers. Pointers /
references wrapped in a struct is one of the more powerful D constructs
that lets you do some pretty neat things.  (Just don't expect it to
behave like C++, lol. :-P)


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