Discussion Thread: DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Final Review

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 17 June 2022 at 13:17:37 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>
> It could also allow skipping some fields and support custom 
> initialization of those fields using a function literal:
>
[...]
>
> And ddoc works for a documented template mixin declaration 
> containing a documented constructor.

Unfortunately you pretty much have to use a string mixin, to 
avoid [issue 3332][1].

For a more sophisticated implementation, [`GenerateThis`][2] from 
the [`boilerplate` package][3] is probably the way to go.

[1]: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3332
[2]: 
https://boilerplate.dpldocs.info/v1.7.7/boilerplate.constructor.GenerateThis.html
[3]: https://code.dlang.org/packages/boilerplate