On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 21:50:03 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
Use a struct and put `static:` after the opening brace. That's
what GC is in core.memory.
Using a `struct` for a purely static type would still allow the
user to create instances of that `struct`. To bypass that,
you'd have to disable the default constructor -- that then
becomes ugly, hackish code.
Looking at the GC code found @
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/druntime/src/core/memory.d, it seems like they have disabled the default constructor:
```D
struct GC
{
@disable this();
...
}
```
Interesting, so maybe there is a use case for a purely static
type or namespace?
The standard library as well uses `final abstract class` a couple
of times, which can also be thought as a type of namespace.
All these 'hacks' to workaround a namespace-like feature are ...
interesting... So maybe such a feature would help the language?
Just askin questions!
