Preventing .init for Archive struct, Programming in D, page 295

[Monkyyy]

On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 15:31:37 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
> On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 15:24:46 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 September 2025 at 15:20:38 UTC, Brother Bill 
>> wrote:
>>> Is is possible to 'disable' .init for a struct?
>>
>> No (and honestly it's bad style to break the constructors)
>
> Please expound on why its 'bad style' to disable constructors.
> Would you accept that disabling postblit may be the exception?

Minor exceptions in type api creates hell inside nested 
metaprogramming and your clever scheme isnt going to be worth the 
trade off of making users learn your system for modifying the 
data.

Plain old data forever