Just started looking at D (from a game programming perspective) and it seems superb in almost every way, except it doesn't appear that structs can have constructors. Is this correct?

If so, how am I to implement a usable Vector4 type (i.e. an array of 4 floats)? And please don't tell me to make it a class - the overhead is not acceptable - this has to be a value type.

Here's hoping I'm missing something.

Si

Simon Hobbs wrote:
> Just started looking at D (from a game programming perspective) and it seems
> superb in almost every way, except it doesn't appear that structs can have
> constructors. Is this correct?
> 
> If so, how am I to implement a usable Vector4 type (i.e. an array of 4 floats)?
> And please don't tell me to make it a class - the overhead is not acceptable -
> this has to be a value type.
> 
> Here's hoping I'm missing something.

You can override operator() and make it static like so:

struct Vec4
{
   float w,x,y,z;
   static Vec4 opCall(float W, float X, float Y, float Z) {
      ...
   }
}

Vec4 blah = Vec4(0,0,0,1);

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