Thread overview
[Issue 15184] Wrongly shaped array accepted as matrix initializer
Oct 13, 2015
Wyatt
Oct 14, 2015
Wyatt
Oct 15, 2015
Vladimir Panteleev
Dec 17, 2022
Iain Buclaw
October 13, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15184

Wyatt <wyatt.epp@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Wyatt <wyatt.epp@gmail.com> ---
The documentation on Arrays states that a static matrix declaration is contiguous in memory so I'd guess this is actually intentional?  Or at least tacitly approved as a holdover from C?  D doesn't really seem to have a strong concept of rank or shape and, from what I could decipher of the grammar, this scenario isn't really covered.

Does this also indicate the need for a rho or reshape function?

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October 13, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15184

--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs@eml.cc ---
(In reply to Wyatt from comment #1)
> The documentation on Arrays states that a static matrix declaration is contiguous in memory so I'd guess this is actually intentional?

A serious language needs should not be sloppy.

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October 14, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15184

--- Comment #3 from Wyatt <wyatt.epp@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to bearophile_hugs from comment #2)
> 
> A serious language needs should not be sloppy.

I wasn't arguing in favour of the current behaviour so much as pointing out why it might be like that at all.  I agree that it's wrong.

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October 15, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15184

Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow@gmail.com> ---
This is obviously a bug because if you make the array static, you get an error. This only applies to non-static array initialization, which has no reason to be syntactically inconsistent.

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December 17, 2022
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15184

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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December 13
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15184

--- Comment #5 from dlangBugzillaToGithub <robert.schadek@posteo.de> ---
THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/19056

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