On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:02:37 +0000, DLearner wrote: > Out of curiosity, why can't D define a 2-dim array by something like: > int(2,1) foo; > > which defines two elements referred to as: > foo(0,0) and foo(1,0)? Work is being done on multidimensional slicing, see this thread: http://forum.dlang.org/post/dyvzmjfcjzoxvitwb...@forum.dlang.org > > It just seems unnatural (if not actually dangerous) to me to have the > array index order reverse between definition and use.
Think about it this way: alias IntList = int[10]; IntList[3] myIntLists; int[10][3] myOtherIntLists; // same type as above You build the type up from the innermost layer to the outermost and when you access the data you reverse that operation, slicing deeper and deeper.
