Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:07 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > int[new] a; > ... > a = [1, 2, 3]; > > What should that do?
To me a is an array, a reference type. Therefore assignment here means rebinding a to a new array created from a literal. > A: Ok, then how do I say the common operation "I want to overwrite > whatever the array had with 1, 2, 3"? I can only presume there must be > an obvious and simple way to do so, and I thought a = [1, 2, 3] was the > obvious syntax to achieve that. I'd say a.replace([1, 2, 3]); > T[new] a; > T[] b; > ... > a = b; > > What should that do? Error: type mismatch. Use a = b.dup;