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.
Is this the same argument as Andrei's rhetorical question (in relation to proposed removal of D complex literals), "Name me five significant complex numbers" from a few weeks ago? (Sorry can't find the NG link just right now).
