On Saturday, 2 February 2013 at 22:39:58 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Saturday, 2 February 2013 at 22:15:56 UTC, Namespace wrote:
My real question was: will we ever have fixed size arrays at
runtime?
I see no reason why we couldn't, the only problem is a syntax
one. If you beat the syntax (by wrapping it in a struct) then
you can do it no problem:
//----
T[N]* makeFixed(size_t N, T)()
{
static struct Fixed
{
T[N] a;
}
auto p = new Fixed();
return &((*p).a);
}
void main()
{
int[4]* p4 = makeFixed!(4, int)();
}
//----
And there, a dynamically allocated fixed size array. I know
it's not pretty, but it proves the point.
Sure and as I said: something like that I'm using currently. It
is very ugly and because of that I asked for a built in solution,
like new ubyte[size].
C have also runtime fixed size arrays.
But as far as I can see all your are fine with the wrapped struct
solution.
