[SUGGESTION] About what classes can possibly look like

[burbokop]

Some kind of classes already implemented in cppfront.

#include<functional>

cat: (_name: std::string, _color: std::string) -> (
    name: std::string,
    color: std::string,
    say_meow: std::function<void()>
 ) = {
    name = _name;
    color = _color;
    say_meow = : () = { std::cout << "Meow from cat '(name$)$' with color '(color$)$'" << std::endl; };
}

main: () = {
    my_cat: _ = cat("my_cat", "white");
    std::cout << "cat '" << my_cat.name << "' created." << std::endl;
    my_cat.say_meow();
}

This code is perfectly compiled with latest version of cppfront (commit 9ca2f45).

cat function is both a constructor and class itself. Something similar implemented in scala language where class declaration syntax is just like function declaration syntax but with additional class keyword.
If there were ability to pass self parameter to say_nya: std::function<void()> which refers to cat__ret structure than it would be more look like a member function.

Conclusion: May be cpp2 does not need special syntax for classes, almost everithing that needed is already here.

Thank you for your work.

[hsutter]

Now there's a creative use of multiple named return values! Thanks for sharing this.

I just enabled Discussions, so I'll convert this to a discussion which hopefully will make it easier to discuss and find again in the future (and then I need to go back and do the same to a bunch of other Issues).

[jcanizales]

Something similar implemented in scala language

It's also pretty much how Javascript does classes (or used to, I think now there's a more declarative way).