== Quote from spir (denis.s...@gmail.com)'s article
> On 03/23/2011 12:01 PM, Madhav wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to do the following:
> > auto arr = new int[2][2];
> > arr[] = 1; // using array expressions
> > // The above gives - Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (1) of type
> > int to const(int[2u][])
> >
> > This was the first step to try out if array arithmetic that worked with
> > single
> > dimensional arrays worked with multi-dimensional. I guess it does not.
> >
> > The immediate utility of this would be to cleanly do matrix algebra. Any
> > ideas
> > why powerful array expressions were not extended to multi dimensional arrays
> > as well?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Madhav
> IIUC, you can do it level by level only:
> unittest {
> int[3] a3;
> int[3][2] a32;
> a3[] = 1;
> a32[] = a3;
> assert(a32 == [[1,1,1], [1,1,1]]);
> }
> Note: in those assignments, [] is optional, but I consider this as a bug. Even
> more since
> int[3] a3 = 1; // works
> int[3][2] a32 = a3 // works not
> denis
Yes i guessed that. My question was more to do with extending array expressions
for multi dimensional arrays as well.
Don't you think this should be provided by the language? It will ease out a lot
of
mathematical implementations
Regards,
Madhav
