Is there a way to instantiate a struct from a function but call a method on the struct before?

[stark root]

I am sorry but this isnt the easiest to phrase lol

Ye, as far as I know the only was to return a struct is in the return statement itself, so Im wondering if there might be a way to sort of create the struct at the return adress and then call a method on it, or to call a structs method in its declaration itself?

[honest flame]

Do you mean something like this?

var instance = Struct.init();
instance.someFunction();
return instance;

[honest shell]

at the return address
You mean the result location? No, there is not currently a way to do that. If you want to init pointers into other fields of the same struct, you'll need to do a two-stage initialization where you first create the struct (eg with var my_foo = Foo{}) and then initialize it in-place (eg. with my_foo.init(), where init takes a *Foo)

If you don't have any self-referential pointers, QuantumDeveloper's answer should work fine

But since you specifically mentioned result locations, I'm guessing you do

[stark root]

ye, at least what this would do in a garbage collected language

[stark root]

is there some nice way to wrap this in a single function without using an allocator to create the struct?

[honest shell]

no

[stark root]

well that would require what i asked in the first place lol