Max Samukha wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
It's me as well. The decision didn't go without a fight (I had your
viewpoint and Walter didn't). He convinced me with two arguments. One is
that 90% of the time you actually want T[], not T[n].
The argument may be flawed because, out of those 90% of arrays, only
small part may be initialized from array literals. Many (most?) are
created with new or appended. I suspect dynamic arrays created from
literals are as rare as static arrays in real world code. Probably,
I'll investigate how exactly rare.
Apparently the need was felt strongly enough that a library made it into
Boost that does exactly initialization of collections (and vector in
particular), in spite of being based on a very questionable design
technique - overloading of the comma operator.
Andrei
