On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:27:52 +0300, Jason House <[email protected]>
wrote:
BCS Wrote:
Reply to tim,
> Theres nothing stopping you from having all your arrays static in D. I
> think your crazy :)
>
I think the thought is that arrays can have dynamic length but can't be
changed
after allocation.
Right. Length is fixed until (re)allication.
starting with:
int[] arr = new int[15];
assigning to length
arr.length = 30;
would always become
auto tmp = new int[30];
tmp[0..min(arr.length,$)] = arr[0..min(tmp.length,$)];
arr = tmp;
Either that or a simple compile error...
It's also possible a middle ground where only const(T)[] is fixed length
until (re)allocation. I'm hoping there will be good discussion on the
pros and cons of alternatives.
I might be wrong, but it seems that arrays are always reallocating memory when
resize. I might be wrong but that's the behaviour I discovered in a recent test.
