On Sunday, 27 September 2020 at 10:17:39 UTC, realhet wrote:
On Saturday, 26 September 2020 at 17:13:17 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
On Saturday, 26 September 2020 at 16:05:58 UTC, realhet wrote:
The closest I can get is @(S.init.c(9).f(42)) with use of opDispatch, which is easier to read but still ugly.

All I can get is that the
- an identifier of a member is stronger than the opDispatch. -> Error: function expected before (), not S(0, 0).c of type int - and if I prefix it with '_' it ruins toString. -> Error: no property toString for type onlineapp.S


import std.stdio, std.range, std.algorithm, std.traits, std.meta, std.conv, std.string, std.uni, std.meta, std.functional, std.exception;

struct S{
    int a, b;

    auto opDispatch(string name, T)(T value)
    if(name.startsWith("_"))
    {
        mixin(name[1..$], "= value;");
        return this;
    }
}

void main(){
    S.init._a(5).writeln;
}


Now I'm more confused, as the compiler completely ignores the if(name.startsWith("_")) constraint o.O

It works if you specialise opDispatch to take an int parameter instead of a type T. It smells like a bug but I don't know enough to say.

I used two opDispatches to be able to avoid having to use _a and _b, and std.algorithm.comparison.among to constrain them.

struct S{
    private int _a, _b;

    auto opDispatch(string name)(int value)
    if (name.among("a", "b"))
    {
        mixin("_", name, "= value;");
        return this;
    }

    auto opDispatch(string name)()
    if (name.among("a", "b"))
    {
        mixin("return _", name, ";");
    }
}

void main(){
    S.init.a(123).b(456).writeln;
S().b(456).a(123).writeln; // Alternative syntax, may not work if opCall is defined
}

It's brittle in that you have to update and sync the two among("a", "b") constraints every time you add or remove a field, but I can't seem to get the names by introspection without it endlessly recursing over opDispatch again.

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