On 12/23/10, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > spir: > >> While I understand some may consider this a nice feature, for me this is >> an enormous bug. A great way toward code obfuscation. I like D among other >> reasons because it's rather clear compared to other languages of the >> family. > > The main problem here is that I have never felt the need of that feature, so > for me it's useless. Has Walter added it after a good number of people have > asked for this feature? Has any one here needed it? > > Bye, > bearophile >
You should probably ask in d-general. It looks like a dangerous feature to have. If you have that function laying in another imported module you might not even realize that you're constructing an object. Consider this: void test(int x, int y, string z); // your module which you accidentally forgot to import void test(int x, Foo f ...); // some other module that *is* imported test(1, 4, "def"); // calling site that constructs a Foo object Maybe it takes more typing, but I prefer this: test(1, new Foo(4, "def")); It's explicit and you can reason about it without having to inspect other modules.
