That's a fantastic answer! Thank you. I was not aware that
initializers were always compile time, that was the missing piece
in my understanding.
It's a shame that I can't use the nicer (IMO) syntax, but the
reasoning is sound.
On Friday, 1 January 2021 at 13:34:16 UTC, Adam wrote:
A a = new A; // I would expect this to be called for each
"new B".
Your expectation is wrong for D. Since that's in a `static`
context, it is run at compile time.
Any variable marked `static`, `__gshared`, or is
Consider the following:
class A
{
int x;
}
class B
{
A a = new A; // I would expect this to be called for each
"new B".
}
void main()
{
import std.stdio;
auto c = new B;
writeln("c ", c.a.x);
c.a.x++;
writeln("c ", c.a.x);
writeln;
auto d = new B;
