Give struct the status it deserves
Stewart Gordon
smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 28 02:57:31 PST 2006
Norbert Nemec wrote:
> I partly agree with you.
>
> 1) A constructor for structs would definitely be necessary: Currently, a
> struct is always initialized to all-zero fields. The "static opCall" is
> nice syntactic sugar for changing the contents of the struct afterwards,
> but it does not allow a guaranteed initialization, since D does not
> force you to call opCall.
<snip>
Struct members can have default initialisers. The only way in which it
"does not allow a guaranteed initialization" is that it's possible to
override default initialisers with a static initialiser. But that's
just like changing members one-by-one after it's been initialised.
Stewart.
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