On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 10:37:30 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
So that’s why I used “why” in the title of this thread, which I haven’t seen an answer to yet. What is the practical case where that warning would be annoying? When would you actually want this behaviour?
After actually stopping to think about it (my earlier responses were reflexive), I agree with your initial assessment that it should be an error. It really only makes sense to allow the dynamic allocation if the fields are immutable and, in the case of arrays, the initializer is a literal.
