On Sunday, 3 November 2024 at 19:00:33 UTC, DLearner wrote:
The two fragments below compiled and ran as expected using dmd
-betterC under Windows.
```
string Scrn = "OPO NAM='DspVar1' POS='1,1'
VAR=('IntVar1','I');E";
printf("\nWR_Createtest entered.\n");
OpStructFstPtr = WR_CreateFormatFile(Scrn);
```
```
OpStruct* WR_CreateFormatFile(string parm_Format) {
import core.stdc.stdio: printf;
import core.stdc.stdlib: malloc;
OpStruct* FstOpStructPtr;
if (parm_Format[0..3] == "OPO"[0..3]) {
printf("OPO Found.\n");
} else {
printf("OPO NOT Found.\n");
}
if (parm_Format[$-1..$] == "E"[0..1]) {
printf("E Found.\n");
} else {
printf("E NOT Found.\n");
}
```
However, the docs say dynamic arrays are not allowed with
betterC, and 'string' implies a dynamic array.
So I expected DMD to complain that my code was invalid.
Any ideas?
Id expect this to fail, but nothing I see in yours
```d
string foo="foo";
foo~="bar";
```
[]'s are both slices and dynamic arrays depending on use, theres
a debate about that decision(im of the opinion a `[?]` should be
a dynamic array and clean up the api), but the current situation
will only break on appends
