Concerns about using struct initializer in UDA?

Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 12 12:07:10 PDT 2017


On Friday, 12 May 2017 at 10:25:07 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Friday, 12 May 2017 at 10:13:02 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> Does it make sense to open a DIP? It would make UDA quite nice 
>> to use if you can group several attributes into a struct.
>>
>> Or someone know whether there are already known issues why it 
>> isn't possible?
>
> The entire point of a DIP is to do this research for everyone 
> and summarize it an easy-to-access and easy-to-find fashion ;-)
> FWIW there is an abandoned DIP for in-place struct 
> initialization (https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/22) - it 
> might make sense to invest the effort to revive it from the 
> dead...

If I find time I will create a new dip. The dip you mentioned is 
about a different usage scenario. My proposal is only about 
sructures used as UDA.
As far as I remember the old dip was not possible due to comma 
syntax which is now in deprecation phase.

Kund regards
André


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