Re: [Vala] struct assignment

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 01:46 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> In C it's pretty common to do struct assignment like this:
>
> typedef struct _Foo {
> int a;
> int b;
> int c;
> } Foo;
>
> Foo thing = {1, 2, 3};
>
> The problem is, once wrapped, you need to do the assignment field by
> field: 
> var thing = new Foo();
> thing.a = 1;
> thing.b = 2;
> thing.c = 3;

As discussed on IRC, we'll probably implement

Foo thing = new Foo () { a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 };

That's the same syntax as C# 3.0 uses for object initializers.

Regards,

Jèrg