Inadequacies of __traits

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Kirk McDonald" <kirklin.mcdonald at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f8drd0$1i92$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I started writing this as a newsgroup post, but decided I'd rather make it 
>a blog post:
>
> http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com/2007/07/inadequacies-of-traits.html
>
> __traits is a worthy addition to D, but it needs a couple more features to 
> be truly useful.
>

Doesn't really help your problem, but just a bit of info to make the 
constructor issue a little more lucid.  The constructor really is just 
another class method.  Class construction works something like (1) allocate 
the class's memory, either using the default method or using the overloaded 
'new', (2) copy the static instance of the class into that memory, and (3) 
call the _ctor method of the new instance.  That's why (1) you can call 
_ctor as an instance method and (2) it returns 'this', as returning 'this' 
is why "new Foo()" gives you the instance -- you're really getting the 
return value of _ctor.

But more on topic, hopefully Walter will be receptive to your comments this 
time too.