On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:19:39 +0000, ketmar wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:05:50 +0000, amber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible in D to have inheritance using value types, i.e.
>> structs?
>>
>> Also I don't quite understand how copy ctors work in D. Do I need to
>> implement opAssign(S other) {}, or this(this) {} and what's the
>> difference between these two?
>
> there is no "copy constructor" in D. structs are copied by `memcpy()`,
> and then compiler calls "postblit" aka `this(this)`. it may seem like
> constructor, but it's not. it's a "fixup", that fixes inconsistencies
> that are left by `memcpy()`. i.e. when postblit is called, structure is
> already copied.
>
> and `opAssign` is... well, overloading of "=" operator. it has to
> manually create a structure copy and manually copy everything you need.
> and it will never be called by compiler "behind the scenes", like
> postblit.oops. of course, you already has a struct for `opAssign` -- it need `this` after all! ;-) but no automatic copying. it's just a function call, nothing magic here.
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