> As the author of constructor
Yes, Yardanico already told us.
But from my current understanding your macro currently can initialize objects
only with default constants. Which I need rarely as my defaults are generally
binary zero. What I sometimes need is initialization with runtime values as in
my example above:
proc initialize(s: Step; prev, next, id: int) =
s.prev = prev
s.next = next
s.id = id
s.radius = 0 # default for incident net
s.outer = false
Run
Here Step is an object, and next, prev, id are runtime variables. Id is an
integer, and next and prev may be references (I do not know the type, wrote the
Ruby code ten years ago, but this detail does not really matter for the concept
of initialization.)
The core idea of my initial post was that the parameter names of the runtime
initializer proc exactly match the fieldnames of the object to initialize. And
that is a pattern which often occurs for me, like student.firstName =
firstName. With the std "with" macro we could write firstName = firstName which
is still not really nice. I will investigate your macro, maybe I can tune it
for my needs.
