March 02, 2007
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1015

           Summary: Compile-time functions cannot return multidimensional
                    array literals
           Product: D
           Version: 1.007
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: tknott@gmail.com


See title.  I'm not sure if this is a bug or not (the spec doesn't specify anything related to compile-time handing of multidimensional arrays), but compile-time handling of multidimensional arrays (necessary for arrays of strings) seems broken right now.  More specific error messages or more runtime-like handling, as well as a clarification in the spec, would be much better.  This bug is probably also related to bug 995 (if not a duplicate, though I think this issue is different enough to warrant a new bug report considering it has a different error message).  Here's a test case:

char[][] func()
{
    return [""]; //Line 3
}

char[][] foo = func(); //test.d(3): Error: non-constant expression [""]


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September 13, 2007
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1015


clugdbug@yahoo.com.au changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




------- Comment #1 from clugdbug@yahoo.com.au  2007-09-13 07:16 -------
This works in DMD 1.020. It was probably a duplicate of bug 995.


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