uniform initialization in D (as in C++11): i{...}

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On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 at 11:35:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-04-05 09:47, ZombineDev wrote:
>
>> D currently supports
>> Point3 p = { x:1, y:2, z:3 };
>>
>> It just needs to be extended to work in more places.
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15692
>
> That's only for structs. A uniform initialization syntax needs 
> to be ... uniform. It has to work for everything.

D already has `typeof(return)`.

struct A{
   int a;
   int b;
}

A fun(A a, int b) {
   if(b==1) return typeof(return)(0,1);
   else if(b==2) return typeof(return)(2,3);
   else return fun(typeof(return)(3,4), 1);
}

Or to better mimic the proposed syntax:

A fun(A a, int b) {
   alias i = typeof(return);
   if(b==1) return i(0,1);
   else if(b==2) return i(2,3);
   else return fun(i(3,4), 1);
}