On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Bill Baxter<wbax...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also a basic built in multi-dim array would be nice. I think most of > the time when people make a new T(10,20) they don't really want 10 > arrays of length 20, each of which can be individually resized (and > must be if more capacity is needed). They want one array with size > 10 x 20. Something like C#'s would be nice: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288453(VS.71).aspx If we were to D-ize them, they might look something like: int[,] a = new int[,](3, 4); a[,] = 5; // slice-assign entire array a[2,] = 10; // slice-assign only the third row for(int i = 0; i < a.length(0); i++) // notice .length(0) for(int j = 0; i < a.length(1); j++) writeln(a[i, j]); auto b = a.dup; a[0,] = b[1,]; // copy b's second row into a's first - hmm Slicing them might be tricky, because I'm not sure what type the slice should be. I think maybe a[0, ] should be int[], but what the heck would a[,0] be? int[,4] ? It'd require a lot more thought.