D has become unbearable and it needs to stop

[Chris Katko]

On Friday, 16 June 2023 at 02:05:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/14/2023 7:44 PM, Chris Katko wrote:
>> Tell any other object about yourself in the constructor? 
>> segfault. Because your object isn't constructed till _after_ 
>> the constructor runs. There's a gotcha.
>
> All objects are default constructed before the constructor is 
> called.
>
> I'll need an example?

I misremembered a bit when summarizing, from this thread last 
year:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/uvjvtzidbqartwkbbaww@forum.dlang.org

Code works fine when you directly send a reference during 
construction. But if you access it from an absolute path like 
module.classinstance.variable it crashes.

That is not something that is obvious, at least to me. If, during 
construction, I can send a reference to [this] to a called 
function just fine, but not refer to the same object through its 
absolute path until after construction, that's counter-intuitive 
/ a gotcha, for me.

Note: on re-reading my old post I see typos that were corrected 
in my later posts in the thread. To be clear, I'm not referring 
to module.CLASSTYPE.variable anywhere. It's 
module.classInstance.variable.