Hi all. I'm interfacing to some C code which include an opaque type and some C functions that create and work with a pointer to that type. I want to wrap up everything in a struct, and the only thing that seems to bug me is initialization.

Since it is C code, I obviously can't read the function that creates the opaque type. Not only that, I can't define a default constructor. What are my options here?

This is for an API that is intended to be used by people other than myself, so I'd like to use something that doesn't look ugly or isn't a hack. I really don't like the idea of using a factory method or overriding opCall. Am I basically out of luck and need to resort to one of these methods?

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