bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
I like this general proposal, it sounds like something that can improve D a
little. There are many other things that have to be improved in D, but baby
steps are enough to go somewhere :-)
Slices will retain the old:
T[] slice;
syntax. Resizeable arrays will be declared as:
T[new] array;
Such syntaxes have to be chosen wisely. I don't fully understand that syntax.
And maybe I don't fully like it.
Why am I not surprised :o).
I think the default (simpler) syntax has to be the most flexible and safer
construct, that is resizable arrays. Slices can be seen as an optimization, so
they can have a bit longer syntax.
Slices will remain ubiquitous, arrays probably not so much.
Andrei
