On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:29:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:22:51 UTC, Carl Sturtivant
wrote:
struct Test { int i; alias i this; }
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The assignment is fine, but the call is rejected by dmd.
Test t = 1;
is rejected too because alias this is not a constructor and a
function call would be construction.
I do think it would be very nice to have explicitly implicit
constructors which would cover both these cases (then we can do
user-defined types that accept the null literal in function
calls too just like built in arrays!), but I don't think it has
anything to do with alias this.
explicitly-implicit constructors are badly needed, I could write
an essay on this
