Move Constructor Syntax

[Derek Fawcus]

On Sunday, 6 October 2024 at 12:51:02 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 October 2024 at 04:04:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> ```
>> struct S { ... }
>>
>> [...]
>
> =this, &this or -this?

I've been partial to the idea of adding the sigil after the name.

this=(S), this<-(S), this~() - the latter being an alternate form 
of destructor.

but I'm not sure how well that would fit in to the existing D 
grammar.

These 'magical' formations were also one of my quibbles with C++.

The other toss up that none of these decorations obviously spring 
out as copy vs move vs construct/destruct, except possibly those 
involving assignment and arrow like graphics, and even those 
could be ambiguous.

So I'd actually favour something which somehow explicitly 
included the words 'move' and 'copy'.