Gide Nwawudu:
> Learning Pascal before C maybe toughen me up, I haven't
> suffered RSI typing ARRAY OF :)
But Pascal arrays have other qualities, an example:
type
TyArr = Array ['e' .. 'x'] of Integer;
var
a1: TyArr;
begin
a1['f'] := 10;
...
That array has that range of chars as indexes, and if you want the compiler at
run time will control that only that range of chars is used. In D you can do
that as (probably typedef is much less common in D code than the types section
in Pascal programs):
typedef int['x' - 'e'] TyArr;
TyArr a1;
int main() {
a1['f' - 'e'] = 10;
...
But maybe such things aren't common enough to deserve a special support.
Bye,
bearophile
