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Compound Constants or Instance Initialization

Creating Pre-initialized Instances in other languages:

C++

Point p = Point(x,y)

C

struct Point p = {x, y};   // C89

struct Point p1;
p1 = (struct Point) {x, y};   // C99

Fuzions Approach to Pre-initialized Instances

Is there any need for this at all? As long as the fields defined within a feature are all arguments to that feature, we can just call it as in

point (x1, x2 i32) is

p1 := point x y

If this occurs repeatedly, e.g., nested in an array

pythagorean := [  point  3  4, point  5 12, point  6  8,
                  point  7 24, point  8 15, point  9 12,
                  point  9 40, point 10 24, point 12 16,
                  point 12 35, point 14 48, point 15 20 ]

then the compiler could convert this into a constant pre-initialized array and avoid calling overhead.

last changed: 2024-06-28