• Lionello Lunesu (14/14) Feb 05 2007 The spec doesn't specify how fixed-sized arrays are passed to functions
• Jarrett Billingsley (4/18) Feb 05 2007 Fixed-size arrays are passed by reference. But I suppose passing smalle...
• Lionello Lunesu (8/28) Feb 05 2007 Yeah. I just thought that it would be useful for that vector proposal in...

Lionello Lunesu <lio lunesu.remove.com> writes:

The spec doesn't specify how fixed-sized arrays are passed to functions 
(or, I did not find it):

void foo( in float[2] array, float x, float y )
{
     array[0] = x;
     array[1] = y;
}

It seems to me that an fixed-sized array like that could well be passed 
by value:

void by_ref( in float[] a, ... );
void by_value( in float[2] a, ... );
void by_ref( inout float[2] a, ... );

No?

L.

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

"Lionello Lunesu" <lio lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
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 The spec doesn't specify how fixed-sized arrays are passed to functions 
 (or, I did not find it):

 void foo( in float[2] array, float x, float y )
 {
     array[0] = x;
     array[1] = y;
 }

 It seems to me that an fixed-sized array like that could well be passed by 
 value:

 void by_ref( in float[] a, ... );
 void by_value( in float[2] a, ... );
 void by_ref( inout float[2] a, ... );

 No?

 L.

Fixed-size arrays are passed by reference.  But I suppose passing smaller 
arrays by value could have its uses.. 

"Lionello Lunesu" <lionello lunesu.remove.com> writes:

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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 "Lionello Lunesu" <lio lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
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 The spec doesn't specify how fixed-sized arrays are passed to functions 
 (or, I did not find it):

 void foo( in float[2] array, float x, float y )
 {
     array[0] = x;
     array[1] = y;
 }

 It seems to me that an fixed-sized array like that could well be passed 
 by value:

 void by_ref( in float[] a, ... );
 void by_value( in float[2] a, ... );
 void by_ref( inout float[2] a, ... );

 Fixed-size arrays are passed by reference.  But I suppose passing smaller 
 arrays by value could have its uses..

Yeah. I just thought that it would be useful for that vector proposal in 
digitalmars.D. Walter mentioned that he'd like float[3] to behave like a 3D 
vector, but with vectors you'd want to have a choice to pass them either by 
value or by ref. Seemed logical to use in/inout for that, but at the moment, 
it doesn't really do anything for state/fixed-sized arrays.

L.