On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:38:50 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Don wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
Jesse Phillips Wrote:
Jason House wrote:
Andrei's finishing his last TDPL chapter, Sean is updating
std.thread(?), and Walter's been fixing forward reference and CTFE
bugs. What's left?
This page[1] has been getting regular updates, so it should do a good
job answering the question.
1.
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel#FutureDirections
From this list: default struct constructors?
Walter doesn't want. This will go down as one of the larger language
incapabilities.
Andrei
What's the reason? Does he dislike the concept, or feel it's a
implementation disaster, or something else?
There are concerns about implementation difficulty and also about
muddying other parts of the language, e.g. T.init may fail.
Andrei
I strongly believe D should get rid of T.init; I hope I'll find some time
to write a proposal and a rationale for it.
