[cfe-dev] vector constructors

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jochen Wilhelmy wrote:

> 
>>> Cg, glsl and hlsl support it.
>>>    
>> 
>> We do not aim to implement those languages in clang.
>> 
>>  
> I do not expect this, but will a patch for only the function style constructors
> be accepted into mainline?
> I think it's a natural extension of c++ syntax to vectors.

In my opinion, there is no reason to do this.  If you want C++ syntax to do this, define your_float4 as a struct with a constructor.  There is already too much needless diversity in vector initialization, and C++'0x may add a whole new world of pain here.

-Chris