• d-bugmail puremagic.com Oct 23 2009
• d-bugmail puremagic.com Nov 09 2009
• d-bugmail puremagic.com Nov 10 2009

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3438

           Summary: constructor with defaulted parameters ignored
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: andrei metalanguage.com


--- Comment #0 from Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei metalanguage.com> 2009-10-23
07:44:31 PDT ---
struct foo {
       this(int dummy = 0) { writeln("Default constructor");}
}

void main() {
    foo x = foo(); 
}

does not print anything. The code should either not compile or print something.

I think at some point we'll need to support default constructors that execute
code.

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d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

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Eldar Insafutdinov <e.insafutdinov gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Eldar Insafutdinov <e.insafutdinov gmail.com> 2009-11-09
13:18:26 PST ---
I would also like to have default struct constructors implemented. So I give a
vote to this one.

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--- Comment #2 from Eldar Insafutdinov <e.insafutdinov gmail.com> 2009-11-10
22:39:12 PST ---
To add a point, by default constructor should be invoked if present. There may
be some reasons to keep a way to create an uninitialized struct(yeah, D is a
systems language), but it should be done explicitly. Now we have an opposite
situation, where by default struct is not initialized, and if you want to, you
can define static opCall like in D1(what an ugly hack!) and call it manually.

I have the real word example for that as well. I am porting Qt container
classes to D. They are value types with Copy on Write semantics and atomic
reference counting. They need some initialization (reference increment) when
constructed. So basically if I write something like this:

QList!int a;

It would not be a valid code. So I have to do

auto a = QList!int();

That is annoying, unsafe(I would have write something in the docs: always
initialize with static opCall!) and not consistent with other value types.

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