• Ivan Senji (2/2) Feb 20 2006 I forgot why there isn't one yet? It's no more than a days work for
• Jarrett Billingsley (12/14) Feb 20 2006 I don't think he's ever actually commented on the issue. But the genera...
• Ivan Senji (5/27) Feb 20 2006 I think compiler knows enough for it to work. Well in the above case it

Ivan Senji <ivan.senji_REMOVE_ _THIS__gmail.com> writes:

I forgot why there isn't one yet? It's no more than a days work for 
Walter probably. :)

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"Ivan Senji" <ivan.senji_REMOVE_ _THIS__gmail.com> wrote in message 
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I forgot why there isn't one yet? It's no more than a days work for Walter 
probably. :)

I don't think he's ever actually commented on the issue.  But the general 
consensus was that it's supposedly unclear whether the statement

a[0 .. 10] = 5;

Means "Get a slice of a, and assign 5 to all the elements in the returned 
array" or "call opSliceAssign with the range 0..10 and the value 5."  My 
thought is that the compiler can already figure out that

a[3] = 5;

Means "use opIndexAssign;" I don't know why opSliceAssign would be any 
different.  Maybe it's somehow incompatible with array operations 
(vectorization). 

Ivan Senji <ivan.senji_REMOVE_ _THIS__gmail.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
 "Ivan Senji" <ivan.senji_REMOVE_ _THIS__gmail.com> wrote in message 
 news:dtc6jm$1fhm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 
I forgot why there isn't one yet? It's no more than a days work for Walter 
probably. :)

 
 
 I don't think he's ever actually commented on the issue.  But the general 
 consensus was that it's supposedly unclear whether the statement
 
 a[0 .. 10] = 5;
 
 Means "Get a slice of a, and assign 5 to all the elements in the returned 
 array" or "call opSliceAssign with the range 0..10 and the value 5."  My 
 thought is that the compiler can already figure out that

I think compiler knows enough for it to work. Well in the above case it 
would definitly be opSliceAssign or if it was missing an error like 
opSlice cannot be an lvalue, use opSliceAssign.

 
 a[3] = 5;
 
 Means "use opIndexAssign;" I don't know why opSliceAssign would be any 
 different.  Maybe it's somehow incompatible with array operations 
 (vectorization). 
 

Don't know about that. But feels like it shouldn't be a problem.