Fixing C's Biggest Mistake (page 29)

On Saturday, 14 January 2023 at 22:06:58 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:

On 1/14/23 22:24, Walter Bright wrote:

On 1/14/2023 10:17 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:

On 1/12/23 03:32, Walter Bright wrote:

Me too. You all know my practice of putting links to more information in code I write. I've been doing that for a long time. I've found a lot of those older links to Microsoft documentation have become deadends, and google doesn't reveal any replacement.

It's just gone. Poof.

https://archive.org/web/

If they were there, wouldn't google have found them? They disappeared around 2001.

I don't know. I don't remember being pointed towards archived webpages by google, but you can just enter the links there directly and find out.

I never once received a Google query result that pointed to archive.org

It's always me having to explicitly visit the site and enter the url

January 20

Re: Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

Posted by Ki Rill
in reply to Patrick Schluter

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Ki Rill

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On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 13:43:33 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

On Thursday, 5 January 2023 at 23:09:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 10:35:37PM +0000, areYouSureAboutThat via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]

to be honest, I've never needed a static array in D.

:-D I haven't really used static arrays very much myself, but occasionally they're useful. E.g. in one project where I use a lot of 4-element int arrays, using static arrays for them reduces a lot of GC pressure, and also gives me nice by-value semantics (useful in certain contexts).

[...]

The annoying and shameful thing about this static array size auto-determination is that it is a feature that even K&R C was able to provide. We will probably see men on the Moon again before D is able to do it ;-)

It has been implemented:


scope int[] arr = [10, 20, 30];

In my opinion, it's a much better design than this:


int[$]    arr = [10, 20, 30];
int[..]   arr = [10, 20, 30];
int[auto] arr = [10, 20, 30];

Link: https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html#dmd.scope-array-on-stack

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