On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:56:55PM +0900, Jacques GARRIGUE wrote:
> From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
> 
> > Could have a syntax for default values for structures?  Something
> > like:
> > 
> > type t = { field1 : int = 0;
> >            field2 : string;  (* no default *)
> >          }
> 
> The difficulty should be apparent in your example: this supposes
> writing values in interfaces, which would be a major (huge) change in
> language design...

Out of interest, is there a theoretical reason why types shouldn't
contain values, or is it just because it's a lot of work to change the
compiler?

Rich.

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