On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 00:10:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So I'm looking at creation functions and in particular creation
functions for arrays.
1. Follow the new int[n] convention:
auto a = allok.make!(int[])(42);
assert(a.length == 42);
assert(a.equal(repeat(0, 42));
2. Follow the [ literal ] convention:
auto a = allok.make!(int[])(42);
assert(a.length == 1);
assert(a[0] == 42);
I'm not a fan of the dual purposing at all. When I see
"a.make!T(x, y, z)",
I expect that to be identical to "new T(x, y, z)", whether T is
an array type
or not. The special case will cause more confusion than aid.
I'd much prefer
separate functions, as others had suggested.
"a.zeroArray!int(dim1, dim2)"
