http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=481
--- Comment #11 from bearophile_h...@eml.cc 2012-04-30 17:04:35 PDT --- (In reply to comment #10) > Sorry to be blunt here but this whole discussion is absolutely pointless and > should be closed as WONTFIX right now. People have better things to do. It's relevant, also because there are 6 votes. > If some dude can't count the number of elements he puts in his 10 elements > array initializer, he'd better stop programming at all. Introducing some > strange Perl-like syntax for that is madness. Thank you for your note, it allows me to better express why this issue relevant. It's not DRY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRY ), and duplicated information tends to get out of sync (and this causes bugs). You write (think of a as a longer array): int[5] arr = [1,2,3,4,5]; void main() {} Later you change the code and your remove on item from the literal, but you forget to update the array size on the left: int[5] arr = [1,2,4,5]; void main() {} The compiler gives you no error nor warning, and arr actually contains [1,2,4,5,0]. This is a source of bugs, it has happened to me too. With a syntax like [$] or []S it can't happen, because the length is not stated twice. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
