On 11/18/12 8:14 PM, bearophile wrote:
Why is no one complaining about this array allocation syntax?
A syntax I like is:
new double[][3][](N, M)
Why not simply allow new double[N][3][M]; ?
Seems a lot more intuitive/succinct than a separate []() implementation.
Where:
- The numbers inside the [] must be always compile-time constants, and
they always refer to fixed-sized arrays.
- The numbers inside the () are run-time values and must be used for
dynamic arrays. (They can be up to the number of empty []. No more. But
maybe they are allowed to be less).
This means this syntax becomes an error:
int n = 5;
auto a = new int[n];
You must write:
int n = 5;
auto a = new int[](n);
This becomes allowed and allocates a fixed-sized array on the heap?
auto a = new int[5];
Bye,
bearophile
