Branch: refs/heads/main
Revision: 28f5438
Author: mppf
Link: Spec improvements about extern record initialization, default init by mppf · Pull Request #18761 · chapel-lang/chapel · GitHub
Log Message:
Merge pull request #18761 from mppf/docs-follow-up-18542
Spec improvements about extern record initialization, default init
This PR includes docs follow-ups to #18542 to describe in the language
spec what default initializing a variable of extern type will do.
Additionally, it resolves a problem I noticed in the spec where it said
than init() will be called for default initialization even though that
is not true for generic records.
It said:
A variable of a record type declared without an initialization
expression is initialized through a call to the record’s default
initializer, passing no arguments.
However this is not currently true and has not been true for some time.
As described in
Invoking Initializers with a Generic Instantiation — Chapel Documentation 1.32
the compiler will pass by name the type and param components.
Reviewed by @lydia-duncan - thanks!
Modified Files:
M doc/rst/language/spec/interoperability.rst
M doc/rst/language/spec/records.rst
Compare: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/compare/77ee1a180774...28f543848fc7