On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 07:02:25 UTC, bearophile wrote:
This shows a limitation of the D type system:import std.algorithm: copy; immutable int[2] data; static this() { foreach (i, x; [10, 20]) data[i] = x; // OK data[] = [10, 20]; // OK [10, 20].copy(data[]); // Error. } void main() {} Bye, bearophile
Because control flow check for immutable data is almost absent. I don't know any situation where are such checks (except constructors).
There is similar issue with respect to initializsing immutable member field in struct constructor. There is issue in bugzilla filed for it (it looks like it will be fixed), where Andrei proposed a concept of cooked object, basically implying control flow for initializaing immutable members. I think that the code you posted as an additional case for the issue.
