Discussion: Rvalue refs and a Move construtor for D

[Mike Franklin]

On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 23:32:01 UTC, Suleyman wrote:

> The move constructor and the move assignment operator can be 
> made in D with or without rvalue refs. Here a short comparison 
> of both scenarios.
>
> ## With rvalue ref
>
> Example:
> ```
> struct S
> {
>     this(@rvalue ref S) { /* move constructor */ }
>     auto opAssign(@rvalue ref S) { /* move op assign */ }
> }
> ```
>
> * Pros:
>  - seems natural: doesn't smell like compiler magic (but it 
> still is compiler magic, at least until D adopts implicit 
> constructors)

There are some of us that would really like implicit constructors 
(done right; not like C++) for other use cases. How would 
implicit constructors help this situation, and should it be 
included as part of this proposal?

Mike