Re: [Vala] Structure initialisation syntax

["Sam Liddicott" <sam liddicott com>]

On 27/04/11 11:30, David Given wrote:
> Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> [...]
> > Copy-n-pasting another way from the the tutorial to initialize a struct
> > type:
> >
> > Color c3 = Color() {
> >      red = 0.5,
> >      green = 0.5,
> >      blue = 1.0
> > };
> This is really creating a temporary and then initialising c3 via
> assignment, which isn't quite what I was looking for. If you look at the
> generated code and compare the above with:
>
> Color c3 = { 0.5, 0.5, 1.0 };
>
> ...you can see that the code generated by this syntax avoids the extra
> copy. It seems surprising to me that the Type() { initialiser } syntax
> supports designated initialisers while the Type t = { initialiser }
> syntax doesn't.

File a bug report.

Sam