Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Also, if you really want to put an object back in it's initial state, >> you could call both the destructor and the constructor. Anything else is >> going to break the object's invariant. I think it's best to leave >> breaking the object's invariants to a special syntax, hence >> "object.~this()". > > Yah, clear destroys and then fills with .init. > > Andrei
How about reinit()?. clear() seems like a name which people would definitely want to use in their own code. The STL uses it for its containers, and you'd then have to come up with a new name for that functionality in any container classes in D. A name which is less likely to be sought after by programmers for their own classes would be better. reinit() is just what comes to mind for me, but I think that it would be a shame to lose clear() to Object. - Jonathan M Davis
