On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 22:14:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 21:29:51 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/03/2015 04:05 PM, FreeSlave wrote:
[...]
How would one use a struct for the List example? There's no
access to "this". Yes, it's a named scope.
You declare static functions on a struct or class and then make
the struct or class unusable as an object (e.g. by having a
final abstract class or explicitly disabling all ways to
construct the struct or class). There are at least a couple of
places in Phobos that do that already (e.g.
std.windows.registry.Registry and std.datetime.Clock both use
final classes with an @disabled default constructor).
- Jonathan M Davis
Why would you need to resort to such hackery, when Andrei's
solution is much more cleaner?
