"Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billings...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.637.1233680615.22690.digitalmars-d-le...@puremagic.com... > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:51 AM, nobody <someb...@somewhere.com> wrote: >> Would you also happen to know why the following gives an error? >> >> arr[1] = arr[$-1]; // main.d(11): Error: cannot assign to static >> array > > arr[1][] = arr[$-1][]; > > You cannot reassign what fixed-size array references point to, but you > can copy their contents. >
Hm, I see. > If this were an int[][], you would still probably want to do "arr[1][] > = arr[$ - 1][]", since doing "arr[1] = arr[$ - 1]" would make arr[1] > and arr[$ - 1] point to the same data; probably not what you would > expect. Well in this case I don't think it would be a problem, since right afterwards i do arr.length = arr.length - 1; But I can see how I have to be careful with this :)