220 22875 <1959502.x2sd2TGX3b@tjmaciei-mobl4> article Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thiago Macieira Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Re: Designated initializer list status? 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[78.47.120.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x203si27470224wme.16.2015.11.24.07.22.28 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of thiago@macieira.org designates 78.47.120.188 as permitted sender) client-ip=78.47.120.188; Original-Received: from tjmaciei-mobl4.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2601:1c0:5803:81c9:b1ec:89f9:b28f:34af]) by gondolin.macieira.info (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D207511B849 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:22:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.3.0-2-default; KDE/4.14.12; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <5c445bcf-8a39-488f-9ee0-49d12a2144bd@isocpp.org> X-Original-Sender: thiago@macieira.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of thiago@macieira.org designates 78.47.120.188 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=thiago@macieira.org Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Spam-Checked-In-Group: std-proposals@isocpp.org X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:22875 Archived-At: On Tuesday 24 November 2015 07:12:01 Nicol Bolas wrote: > On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 12:11:57 AM UTC-5, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Monday 23 November 2015 20:47:47 Nicol Bolas wrote: > > > Why not? I already explained how to get the equivalent behavior without > > > having actual named parameters (have the type take a struct and use an > > > extra set of braces). > > > > It's not as efficient and is much more limited. > > ... so? > > Designated initializers exist to make aggregates work better and nicer. > They are *not* a way to back-door named parameters into the language, nor > are they an attempt to make constructors work with them. > > The fact that they don't solve something that they're not actually supposed > to solve is *not* a problem with the feature. It's a problem with your > expectations and desires projected onto the feature. I'm merely pointing out that you can't say that designated initialisers are a replacement for function parameter initialisers. They are not. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/group/std-proposals/. .