• Justin Johansson <no spam.com> Oct 30 2009

Justin Johansson <no spam.com> writes:

Max Samukha Wrote:

 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
 <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:
 
It's me as well. The decision didn't go without a fight (I had your 
viewpoint and Walter didn't). He convinced me with two arguments. One is 
that 90% of the time you actually want T[], not T[n].


 The argument may be flawed because, out of those 90% of arrays, only
 small part may be initialized from array literals. Many (most?) are
 created with new or appended. I suspect dynamic arrays created from
 literals are as rare as static arrays in real world code. Probably,
 I'll investigate how exactly rare.


Is this the same argument as Andrei's rhetorical question
(in relation to proposed removal of D complex literals),
"Name me five significant complex numbers" from a few weeks ago?

(Sorry can't find the NG link just right now).