On Thursday, July 12, 2012 18:25:03 David Piepgrass wrote: > I'm putting this in a separate thread from > http://forum.dlang.org/thread/uufohvapbyceuaylo...@forum.dlang.org > because my counterproposal brings up a new issue, which could be > summarized as "Constructors Considered Harmful": > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8381
I think that adding constructors to a type from an external source is downright evil. It breaks encapsulation. I should be able to constrain exactly how you construct my type. If you want to create a free function (e.g. a factory function) which uses my constructors, fine. But I'm completely against adding constructors externally. - Jonathan M Davis