On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:21:29AM -0700, yary wrote: : I do see a problem if there's more than one unspecified dimension. : Though I suppose an array of shape(*;*) as an lvalue might be a : constraint allowing assignment only of another 2D array?
I don't see why we shouldn't use the capture shape of the value by default all the time, and do linear reshaping only if the value comes in as a flat list. We've gone to some pains to allow ephemeral shaping of values through captures, and it seems like it's good error checking to check the shape of the value against the shape of the container unless explicitly defeated. That is to say, if you erase the capture shape by putting the value into list context, it linearizes it, and then the container knows to reshape. Otherwise the container attempts to use the value slicily. Larry
