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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Michael Sperber wrote:
Andre van Tonder <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:Instead of having a separate <init expression> for each field, one could simply have an <expression> for the constructor, which should evaluate to a procedure that returns the computed fields (using VALUES, for example).This might be a suitable alternative if it could fit into the syntactic layer in such a way as to provide a simple way of defaulting, at least for the case where I just want the constructor arguments to go into the corresponding fields. Do you have suggestions on how that might look?
Perhaps another keyword clause (constructor <expression>) which can be left out for the default constructor. Cheers Andre