Bill Baxter Wrote:

> is *already* unreadable (plus I don't think that [3,17] part is legal D).  If any reasonable programmer really did have a need for such a type

Actually, Bill, it's part of the language spec.
http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
Look up "Rectangular Arrays"

Dan wrote:
> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> 
>> is *already* unreadable (plus I don't think that [3,17] part is legal D).  If any reasonable programmer really did have a need for such a type 
> 
> Actually, Bill, it's part of the language spec.
> http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
> Look up "Rectangular Arrays"

The only thing even close to that is this:
---
In other languages, this would be called a multidimensional array and be declared as:

double matrix[3,3];
---
Note those first three words...

Dan wrote:
> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> 
>> is *already* unreadable (plus I don't think that [3,17] part is legal D).  If any reasonable programmer really did have a need for such a type 
> 
> Actually, Bill, it's part of the language spec.
> http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
> Look up "Rectangular Arrays"

Read that part of the spec closely, Dan.

--bb