Look at this healthy mess:

void main()
{
 int[]
arr=(cast(int*)cast(void*)(cast(dchar[])"\u0001\u0002\u0003").ptr)[0..3];
 for(uint i=0; i<arr.length; i++)
  writefln(arr[i]);
}

It prints

1
2
3

It works!

Just something interesting I thought up in the limbo of half-sleep this morning.  But it does point out something interesting - how is it that (d|w)char arrays can have non-static literal initializers, but not anything else?  I propose an "array" keyword, that works something like the "function" or "delegate" keywords:

int[] arr=int array[1,2,5,6,9];

Typechecking could be done on the contents of the literal because of the "int", it could be used as an argument to a function, and the array keyword makes it unambiguous.  And then we can use the array keyword in "is" expressions!

if( is( arr == array ) )

 :)

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> void main()
> {
>  int[] arr=(cast(int*)cast(void*)(cast(dchar[])"\u0001\u0002\u0003").ptr)[0..3];
>  for(uint i=0; i<arr.length; i++)
>   writefln(arr[i]);
> }

Cute... throw in hex strings and it gets even cuter.  :)

# arr = (cast(int*)cast(void*)(cast(dchar[])x"01 02 03").ptr)[0..3];

-- Chris Sauls