On 6/30/20 12:37 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 6/30/20 12:22 PM, JN wrote:
Spent some time debugging because I didn't notice it at first,
essentially something like this:
int[3] foo = [1, 2, 3];
foo = 5;
writeln(foo); // 5, 5, 5
Why does such code compile? I don't think this should be permitted,
because it's easy to make a mistake (when you wanted foo[index] but
forgot the []). If someone wants to assign a value to every element
they could do foo[] = 5; instead which is explicit.
That's a feature. I don't think it's going away. The problem of
accidental assignment is probably not very common.
I take it back, I didn't realize this wasn't something that happened
with dynamic arrays:
int[] dyn = [1, 2, 3];
dyn = 5; // error
dyn[] = 5; // ok, brackets required
I would say that's a decent precedent to deprecate and remove that
functionality.
-Steve
