• Steve Teale (16/16) Feb 07 2010 The D2 structs and unions documentation tells how to define a struct
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= (14/30) Feb 07 2010 You probably meant Bar(256) on the right hand side? Then it's a struct
• Kagamin (2/8) Feb 08 2010 This syntax is reserved for function prototypes.

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

The D2 structs and unions documentation tells how to define a struct 
constructor (that's a mouthful). But it doesn't tell how to use it. Seems 
like if you have say

struct Bar
{
    int[] a;
    this(uint sz) { a.length = sz; }
}

you can do either:

Bar bar = Bar(256);

or:

Bar bar;
bar = bar(256);

but it would be nicer if you could just do:

Bar bar(256);

In any case, it should be documented.

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 The D2 structs and unions documentation tells how to define a struct
 constructor (that's a mouthful). But it doesn't tell how to use it. 

Seems
 like if you have say

 struct Bar
 {
     int[] a;
     this(uint sz) { a.length = sz; }
 }

 you can do either:

 Bar bar = Bar(256);

 or:

 Bar bar;
 bar = bar(256);

You probably meant Bar(256) on the right hand side? Then it's a struct 
literal.

In any case, even if the produced codes are the same; *I think* the 
latter is actually technically default construction, followed by 
assignment. Which may involve different operations, depending on the 
struct...

 but it would be nicer if you could just do:

 Bar bar(256);

I miss that from C++ too. I assumed that there must be reasons related 
to D's syntax for not allowing that.

I've settled to this syntax myself, which is effectively the same as 
your first above:

auto bar = Bar(256);

 In any case, it should be documented.

Ali

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

Ali Çehreli Wrote:

  > but it would be nicer if you could just do:
  >
  > Bar bar(256);
 
 I miss that from C++ too. I assumed that there must be reasons related 
 to D's syntax for not allowing that.

This syntax is reserved for function prototypes.