• m0rph (14/14) Oct 19 2012 Suppose I have a dynamic array of classes, something like:
• Marco Leise (8/27) Oct 19 2012 When you extend the length of an array, it is filled with
• Jacob Carlborg (6/10) Oct 19 2012 Is this possible:
• monarch_dodra (7/16) Oct 19 2012 Technically, it will compile and work, but you need to understand
• Artur Skawina (33/47) Oct 19 2012 Having it done implicitly by the language would be bad, but it's easy en...

"m0rph" <m0rph.mailbox gmail.com> writes:

Suppose I have a dynamic array of classes, something like:

class Foo {
     int value;
}

Foo[] a;

Now I want to resize it and initialize new items with default 
values, so I do following:

a.length = 10;
a[0].value = 1;

And by executing the last line of code I've got a segmentation 
fault. Apparently a.length = 10 resizes array and creates 10 
references to Foo, but objects of Foo were not created. Do I need 
to manually iterate over new items of the array and explicitly 
call a[i] = new Foo, or there is a better (automatic) way?

Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:

Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:09:42 +0200
schrieb "m0rph" <m0rph.mailbox gmail.com>:

 Suppose I have a dynamic array of classes, something like:
 
 class Foo {
      int value;
 }
 
 Foo[] a;
 
 Now I want to resize it and initialize new items with default 
 values, so I do following:
 
 a.length = 10;
 a[0].value = 1;
 
 And by executing the last line of code I've got a segmentation 
 fault. Apparently a.length = 10 resizes array and creates 10 
 references to Foo, but objects of Foo were not created. Do I need 
 to manually iterate over new items of the array and explicitly 
 call a[i] = new Foo, or there is a better (automatic) way?

When you extend the length of an array, it is filled with
the static .init value for the type, which is null here. I
think you'll have to create the objects manually.

foreach (ref foo; a) foo = new Foo;

-- 
Marco

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-10-19 11:42, Marco Leise wrote:

 When you extend the length of an array, it is filled with
 the static .init value for the type, which is null here. I
 think you'll have to create the objects manually.

 foreach (ref foo; a) foo = new Foo;

Is this possible:

a[] = new Foo;

?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 19 October 2012 at 13:41:53 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2012-10-19 11:42, Marco Leise wrote:

 When you extend the length of an array, it is filled with
 the static .init value for the type, which is null here. I
 think you'll have to create the objects manually.

 foreach (ref foo; a) foo = new Foo;

 Is this possible:

 a[] = new Foo;

 ?

Technically, it will compile and work, but you need to understand 
what it is actually going to do:

It will allocate a single new Foo, and then assign that class 
reference to each and every index in your array. They will 
effectively all point to the same instance, rather than each to 
their own.

Artur Skawina <art.08.09 gmail.com> writes:

On 10/19/12 11:09, m0rph wrote:
 Suppose I have a dynamic array of classes, something like:
 
 class Foo {
     int value;
 }
 
 Foo[] a;
 
 Now I want to resize it and initialize new items with default values, so I do
following:
 
 a.length = 10;
 a[0].value = 1;
 
 And by executing the last line of code I've got a segmentation fault.
Apparently a.length = 10 resizes array and creates 10 references to Foo, but
objects of Foo were not created. Do I need to manually iterate over new items
of the array and explicitly call a[i] = new Foo, or there is a better
(automatic) way?

Having it done implicitly by the language would be bad, but it's easy enough
to automate: 

   struct ObjArr(T, alias TF) {
      T[] array;
      alias array this;
       property:
      auto length() { return array.length; }
      auto length(size_t l) {
         auto old = array.length;
         array.length = l;
         for(; old<l; ++old)
            array[old] = TF();
         return l;
      }
   }

   class Foo {
      int value;
   }

   void main() {
      ObjArr!(Foo, function { return new Foo; }) a;
      a.length = 10;
      a[0].value = 1;
      
      // And if you think the above declaration is too verbose:
      alias ObjArr!(Foo, function { return new Foo; }) FooArr;
      // then:

      FooArr b;
      b.length = 10;
      b[0].value = 1;
   }

etc

artur