Bug 13806 – std.bitmanip.BitArray -- use of methods named init() messes up templates

It seems to be pretty common and accepted practice to use the static init field to get default values of an arbitrary templated type--however this pattern will fail hard on types like BitArray that have methods name init(), and no overloads that can be called without parameters. It'd make life a lot easier if these methods could be renamed to something like initialize().

IMO, proper ctors should be used instead of init(), since that is essentially what they do.

Actual pull (you posted wrong link) https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2854 :-)

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/588c76c19b2619361f37084ec4bcaa95f7f03417 Merge pull request #2854 from quickfur/bitarray_init Issue 13806: BitArray should not define member function called init()

Are there any other instances of init abuse in Phobos, or can we close this now?

Commit pushed to 2.067 at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/588c76c19b2619361f37084ec4bcaa95f7f03417 Merge pull request #2854 from quickfur/bitarray_init

This seems to have been solved. If there are other cases of init abuse, one can always file a new bug report. Closing as fixed.