Structs are Not Plain: A call for empty struct constructors

[Max Samukha]

On Thursday, 19 September 2019 at 09:30:00 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> A workaround, wrap it with alias this in another struct:
>
> ```
> import std.stdio;
> struct Foo
> {
>     int a;
>     this(int) { a = -1; }
>     ~this() { writeln("~this(), a = ",a); }
> }
>
> struct Bar
> {
>     Foo f = Foo(1);
>     alias f this;
> }
> void main()
> {
>     with(Bar())
>     {
>         writeln(a);
>         a = 42;
>     }
> }
> ```

Won't work - Foo(1) is evaluated at compile time.