On 03/23/2012 07:15 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 3/23/12, H. S. Teoh<hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
WAT?! What on earth is "cast()" supposed to mean??
I've no idea. It's probably a front-end bug and the cast forces the
compiler to.. come to its senses?
That part is not a bug, it is specified.
http://dlang.org/expression.html#CastExpression
"Casting with no Type or CastQual removes any top level const,
immutable, shared or inout type modifiers from the type of the
UnaryExpression."
What is a bug is that array initializers cannot be used to initialize
structs through associative array alias this.
Maybe you are also missing that this is valid code:
int[] a = [1 : 2, 3 : 4];
This only works for initializers of the form [ ... ]. The cast() removes
that possibility.
This is why the compiler gets confused.
