simendsjo:
> Why is this a bug?
Currently it isn't. But I (and few other people) have asked for it to be a bug,
because it sometimes leads to not catching a programmer mistake.
> Static means it's only one instance (per thread),
> right? The compiler cannot know if you meant to fill the entire array or
> if you meant something like this
>
> static string[2] szFormat = ["%s, %s"];
>
> void main() {
> szFormat[1] = "%d";
> assert(szFormat == ["%s, %s", "%d"]);
> }
The idea in the proposal on Bugzilla is that a literal like this is a bug:
static string[2] szFormat = ["%s, %s"];
If you want to fill some space later there is this syntax that explicitly tells
the compiler some items are left undefined (Python Zen rule: explicit is better
than implicit):
static string[2] szFormat = ["%s, %s", ...];
There is also this syntax to auto determination of the fixed length:
static string[$] szFormat = ["%s, %s"]; // length == 1
Bye,
bearophile
