Re: Confirming and uninstantiated struct

2017-01-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 13:57:23 UTC, aberba wrote:


if (stu is Student.init) //will confirm when i get to my pc


That works, as does this:

if(stu == Student.init)




Re: Confirming and uninstantiated struct

2017-01-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn

Structs are a value type and will always have a type that won't be null.
If you want it to be nullable you will have to use pointers or classes
(there is also Nullable in std.typecons but it won't work with is null).


s/have a type that won't be null/have a value that won't be null/

My bad.


Re: Confirming and uninstantiated struct

2017-01-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn

On 24/01/2017 2:57 AM, aberba wrote:

How do I verify this struct has no value

Student getStudent()
{
...
Student s;
if(condition) s = Student;
return s;
}

auto stu = getStudent();

//which will work and is best?
if (stu is null) //doesn't wrk.
if (stu is Student.init) //will confirm when i get to my pc

Or how would you do it? Will you make it null first? (I'm not used to
statically typed languages internals)

Another issue. I'm creating a function to authenticate user login. I
want to determine login failure (Boolean) and error message but D does
have multiple return type (could use struct but will make code dirty).

in such case, would you use a callback delegates function or will use a
string (str == "ok", str == "no") or go with a struct?


Structs are a value type and will always have a type that won't be null.
If you want it to be nullable you will have to use pointers or classes 
(there is also Nullable in std.typecons but it won't work with is null).




Confirming and uninstantiated struct

2017-01-23 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-learn

How do I verify this struct has no value

Student getStudent()
{
...
Student s;
if(condition) s = Student;
return s;
}

auto stu = getStudent();

//which will work and is best?
if (stu is null) //doesn't wrk.
if (stu is Student.init) //will confirm when i get to my pc

Or how would you do it? Will you make it null first? (I'm not 
used to statically typed languages internals)


Another issue. I'm creating a function to authenticate user 
login. I want to determine login failure (Boolean) and error 
message but D does have multiple return type (could use struct 
but will make code dirty).


in such case, would you use a callback delegates function or will 
use a string (str == "ok", str == "no") or go with a struct?