Robert Jacques wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:45 -0500, Walter Bright > <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > >> Currently, the type is determined by the type of the first element and >> the rest are implicitly cast to it. >> >> I propose changing it to being the type produced by applying the ?: >> logic repeatedly to all the elements. > > Given how numeric literals currently work: > vote-- > > for example currently: > float[] = [1.0f, 2.5, 5.6, 0.8].dup; > > under the proposal > float[] = [1.0f, 2.5f, 5.6f, 0.8f].dup; >
Wait... just to be clear, is this because [1.0f, 2.5, 5.6, 0.8] would, under the proposed, become a double[4] and thus not be duppable to float[]?