D vs. placement new (for classes) aka why D needs .sizeof and

[Dan]

Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1023

Ooo.. nifty.  A link!

If indeed we enumerated the properties in the same way that we enumerated variadic arguments in a function, then we could very reasonably write our own interface checking for structs, and someone could release a template that performed checking quite readily; with debug{} else{} thrown into the template, it could do very well indeed!

Sincerely,
Dan