• Andrew Edwards (13/13) Jul 02 2003 Acording to the documentation the following should be a valid statement:
• Ilya Minkov (5/18) Jul 02 2003 I believe it is an intended limitation, not a bug. I consider it an
• Andrew Edwards (6/7) Jul 02 2003 It is suggest that the section titled "Creating an array of variable siz...

"Andrew Edwards" <edwardsac spamfreeusa.com> writes:

Acording to the documentation the following should be a valid statement:

int[] myArray;
myArray[myArray.length++] = 5;

however, it results in the following compile time error:

'array.length' is not an lvalue

Regards,
Andrew


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Ilya Minkov <Ilya_member pathlink.com> writes:

I believe it is an intended limitation, not a bug. I consider it an
inconsistency in a language, and thus evil. And if it is done: please document
it somewhere.

-i.

In article <bdu5j4$25s7$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Andrew Edwards says...
Acording to the documentation the following should be a valid statement:

int[] myArray;
myArray[myArray.length++] = 5;

however, it results in the following compile time error:

'array.length' is not an lvalue

Regards,
Andrew


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"Andrew Edwards" <edwardsac spamfreeusa.com> writes:

"Ilya Minkov" <Ilya_member pathlink.com> wrote...
 I believe it is an intended limitation, not a bug <snip>

It is suggest that the section titled "Creating an array of variable size"
on the  "Converting C to D" page be updated to reflect the correct way to do
this in D.

Regards,
Andrew