• goodwin (21/21) Jan 23 2013 Hello everybody.
• Adam D. Ruppe (3/3) Jan 23 2013 I think
• goodwin (2/5) Jan 23 2013

"goodwin" <artem.3a gmail.com> writes:

Hello everybody.

I started to study the D programming language and i write same 
small library which use templates(generics) active. So i have one 
question, how can i get default value for template(generic)? May 
be something like this:

T someMethod(T)(bool someCondition){
     if (someCondition) {
         // ... do something and return result
     } else {
         return default(T);
     }
}

I solved this problem with help small hack:

T getDefaultValue(T)(){
     T default_value;
     return default_value;
}

But i don't like this solution and i don't sure that it is work 
in all cases. I want to use standard mechanism if it is exist.

With best regards.

PS: Sorry for my bad english. =)

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

I think

   return T.init;

will do what you want most easily.

"goodwin" <artem.3a gmail.com> writes:

Thanks, this is what i need.

On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 02:11:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 I think

   return T.init;

 will do what you want most easily.