On 09/04/2011 22:58, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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So how, exactly, does the runtime get at data that doesn't exist?
Every time that you use an enum, it's replaced with the enum's value. So, it's
like you put a literal there which was identtical to the enum's value. So,
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That's what I'd made out people were saying. But Don seemed to be claiming that the [1,
2, 3, 4] doesn't exist at runtime.
If a had been an immutable variable, then a would not have been replaced with
its value in the writeln call, but rather a would be passed to writeln.
Exactly.
What I'm claiming ought to happen is for a to be replaced at compiletime with the (length,
address) tuple pointing to [1, 2, 3, 4]. Am I imagining it, or is this basically the way
string literals work?
Stewart.
