Jarrett Billingsley Wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Sam S E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See http://s3.amazonaws.com/dconf2007/WalterAndrei.pdf. > > There are some amazing feature listed there. I can't think of anything else > > I'd like to see implemented (except for automatic type inference of > > substructs in struct literals). > > Ah, OK. Yeah, I wonder if a good number of those features will make > it into D anytime soon. Walter already said macros will be put off > until D3, which were one of the major things I was looking forward to > for D2.. in the mean time, a number of other ideas have come up and > have taken precedence over many things mentioned in the slides. Some > are already implemented, though. > > > I don't know how to explain those, so I'll give an example: > > > > struct Foo > > { > > int a; > > int b; > > } > > > > struct Bar > > { > > Foo f; > > real asdf; > > } > > > > auto def = Bar(Foo(1, 42), 13.7); //current > > Bar def = {{1, 42}, 13.7}; //C-style > > //downside: only possible > > if you initialize > > //when you declare > > auto def = Bar({1, 42}, 13.7); //Bar for clarity, Foo obvious > > //simpler, especially with many > > nested structs > > Better struct literals would be nice.
Better in what way? Do you like my syntax or do you have a better one?
