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reply "ixid" <nuaccount gmail.com> writes:
This doesn't work:
const int[4][4] a = [[10,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0]];
int[4][4] b = a.dup;

Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (_adDupT(& 
D15TypeInfo_xG4G4i6__initZ,cast(const(int[4u])[])a)) of type 
int[4u][] to int[]

And with dynamic arrays:
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (_adDupT(& 
D13TypeInfo_xAAi6__initZ,a)) of type const(int)[][] to int[][]


This does:
const int[4] c = [10,0,0,0];
int[4] d = c.dup;

Shouldn't dup do the former as well and if not how should it be 
done?
Sep 15 2012
parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 09/15/2012 09:47 PM, ixid wrote:
 This doesn't work:
 const int[4][4] a = [[10,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0]];
 int[4][4] b = a.dup;

 Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (_adDupT(&
 D15TypeInfo_xG4G4i6__initZ,cast(const(int[4u])[])a)) of type int[4u][]
 to int[]

 And with dynamic arrays:
 Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (_adDupT(&
 D13TypeInfo_xAAi6__initZ,a)) of type const(int)[][] to int[][]


 This does:
 const int[4] c = [10,0,0,0];
 int[4] d = c.dup;

 Shouldn't dup do the former as well and if not how should it be done?
This feels like a limitation to me too. The following workaround works: const int[4][4] a = [[10,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0]]; int[4][4] b; b = a; Ali
Sep 15 2012