Optional named parameters in function invocations could be a third option,
although of course that introduces a third inflexibility to consider. :P
So, which happens most often?
1) You create a class without any constructor besides property assignment,
and then later introduce a more substantial constructor.
2) You alter the order of fields/memory layout of a class.
3) You change the names of a class' fields.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Nate Bragg <jonathan.br...@alum.rpi.edu>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Niko Matsakis <n...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> What I mainly dislike about the current constructor system is having to
>> repeat everything all the time. Sometimes this is ok but usually a
>> constructor just wants to initialize all (or most) of the fields from the
>> values given in the parameters. One possibility that patrick and I had
>> talked about is that if there is no constructor defined, one can construct
>> the class using a literal syntax like `C { f1: ..., f2: ... }`. But I am
>> concerned that this is kind of discontinuous with the
>> constructor---implementing a constructor would then require rewriting every
>> allocation site.
>>
>> So perhaps we should just say there is a default constructor of the form:
>>
>> new(f1: T1, ..., fN: T2) {
>> self.f1 = f1;
>> ...
>> self.fN = fN;
>> }
>>
>> for each field `f1`, ..., `fN` defined in the class (and in the same
>> order as they are defined).
>>
>
> Anecdotally, from the perspective of this prospective user, default
> constructors like that give me heartburn (for the first example that pops
> into my head, say two fields of the same type change in position inside the
> class - now you have to fix all of your default constructors). If there is
> going to be an implicit constructor, I would prefer the literal style you
> listed. It hearkens back to c99-style field-name designated initializers,
> and is very explicit.
>
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