(n00bie alert--think Star Trek-style klaxxons)

Hi.  I'm new here.

I was wondering about array initialization under D.  Currently, I'm trying the following:

int[] stuff = [1,2,3,4];

Which doesn't work since stuff isn't static.  My first question is, why can't it just infer the size for me?  ``char[] abc = "abc";'' works, so why not (basically) the same expression with int's instead?

I also noticed that ``char[] abc; abc = "abc";'' also works, but once again, change "char" to "int", and the compiler borks.

Have I hit a bug, or is there a good reason it's like this?

Thanks for your time,

-- Daniel

"A cache without a proper policy isn’t a cache it’s a memory leak."
        -- Rico Mariani

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:21:04 +0000 (UTC), Daniel Keepatgmail.com> wrote:

> (n00bie alert--think Star Trek-style klaxxons)
> 
> Hi.  I'm new here.
> 
> I was wondering about array initialization under D.  Currently, I'm trying the following:
> 
> int[] stuff = [1,2,3,4];
> 
> Which doesn't work since stuff isn't static.  My first question is, why can't it just infer the size for me?  ``char[] abc = "abc";'' works, so why not (basically) the same expression with int's instead?
> 
> I also noticed that ``char[] abc; abc = "abc";'' also works, but once again, change "char" to "int", and the compiler borks.
> 
> Have I hit a bug, or is there a good reason it's like this?
> 

Some have called it a bug, and others have suggested that it just has been implemented yet. Anyhow, this limitation has been promised to be lifted in some future release.

-- 
Derek
Melbourne, Australia
27/10/2004 12:56:40 PM