Hello everyone,

I currently try to create a structure with a construtor, but I always get the following messages:

Error: Foo.this constructors are only for class definitions
Error: constructor lisim.lsResult.lsResult.this special member functions not allowed for structs

By compiling the follwing code:

struct Foo {
    int len;
    bool len_done;
    const char* str;
    int length()
    {   if (!len_done)
        {   len = strlen(str);
	    len_done = true;
        }
	return len;
    }
    this(char* str) { this.str = str; }
}
const Foo f = Foo("hello");
bar(f.length);

I found that source on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/const-faq.html#logical-const. I know that this source is for d2 and not for d1 but does d1 support similar operations (or is there no support for struct-constructors)?

Thanks in advance :)

== Quote from Nrgyzer (nrgyzer@googlemail.com)'s article
> Hello everyone,
> I currently try to create a structure with a construtor, but I always get the
following messages:
> Error: Foo.this constructors are only for class definitions
> Error: constructor lisim.lsResult.lsResult.this special member functions not
allowed for structs
> By compiling the follwing code:
> struct Foo {
>     int len;
>     bool len_done;
>     const char* str;
>     int length()
>     {   if (!len_done)
>         {   len = strlen(str);
> 	    len_done = true;
>         }
> 	return len;
>     }
>     this(char* str) { this.str = str; }
> }
> const Foo f = Foo("hello");
> bar(f.length);
> I found that source on
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/const-faq.html#logical-const. I know that this source is for d2 and not for d1 but does d1 support similar operations (or is there no support for struct-constructors)?
> Thanks in advance :)

Struct constructors are D2 only.  That said, you can fake them in D1 by overloading static opCall:

struct Foo {
    uint field;

    static Foo opCall(SomeType someArgument) {
        Foo foo;

        // Do stuff.
        foo.field = someValue;
        return foo;
    }
}

auto foo = Foo(someArgument);

On 01/11/2010 04:06 PM, Nrgyzer wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I currently try to create a structure with a construtor, but I always get the following messages:
>
> Error: Foo.this constructors are only for class definitions
> Error: constructor lisim.lsResult.lsResult.this special member functions not allowed for structs
>
> By compiling the follwing code:
>
> struct Foo {
>      int len;
>      bool len_done;
>      const char* str;
>      int length()
>      {   if (!len_done)
>          {   len = strlen(str);
> 	    len_done = true;
>          }
> 	return len;
>      }
>      this(char* str) { this.str = str; }
> }
> const Foo f = Foo("hello");
> bar(f.length);
>
> I found that source on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/const-faq.html#logical-const. I know that this source is for d2 and not for d1 but does d1 support similar operations (or is there no support for struct-constructors)?
>
> Thanks in advance :)

get rid of the constructor and replace

> const Foo f = Foo("hello");

with

const Foo f = Foo(0,false,"hello");

and it will work, if you can forgive how ugly it is.

dsimcha:
> Struct constructors are D2 only.  That said, you can fake them in D1 by overloading static opCall:

Struct constructors are probably the D2 feature I miss more in D1 :-)

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> dsimcha:
>> Struct constructors are D2 only.  That said, you can fake them in D1 by
>> overloading static opCall:
> 
> Struct constructors are probably the D2 feature I miss more in D1 :-)

Why?

> Bye,
> bearophile

grauzone:
> > Struct constructors are probably the D2 feature I miss more in D1 :-)
> 
> Why?

During optimization phases I sometimes want to convert classes into structs, and then I want to allocate some of those struct instances on the heap and others on the stack. A struct constructor allows me to change as little as possible to the code that uses those new structs.

Bye,
bearophile