Re: Extend the call site default argument expansion mechanism?

[Dukc via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 May 2018 at 14:15:18 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
...
// constructor of DataStructure
this(Allocator alloc=__ALLOC__) {...}
...
auto alloc = new SomeAllocator();
define __ALLOC__ = alloc;
// And we don't need to pass alloc everytime
...
Is this a good idea?

Doesn't this basically mean including the implicits Martin 
Odersky talked about at Dconf in D?

I don't know whether it's a good idea all-in-all, but assuming 
the arguments can be used as compile-time I can already see a big 
use case: killing autodecoding without breaking code. Something 
like:

auto front(C, bool disableDecoding = __NODECODE__)(inout C[] 
string)
{   static if (disableDecoding) {...}
    else {...}
}