Hi,

Say I wanted to create an object that has a string member, and I want the string to be allocated with the object contiguously instead of as a pointer to another location (as a constructor would do). For example:

class C {
    this(int i, string s) {
        this.i = i;
        this.s = s.toUTF16z();
    }

    int i;
    wstring s;
}

I want to allocate memory such that it looks like this:

[32-bit int][s.length * wchar.sizeof bytes]

I've considered using a separate function to create the class, but I don't know how setting the length of the string would behave. The only solution I can think of would be to have a constructor like this:

this(int i, string s, void[] mem) {
    emplace!int(mem.ptr, i);

    auto t = cast(dchar[]) mem[int.sizeof .. $];
    this.s.fill(s.byDChar())
}

Is there a better way to do this?

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