Robert Jacques wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:03:04 -0500, Chad J
<chadj...@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote:
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[]?
Yes. This also applies to static array initialization and other types
(byte, short, etc.)
If array literals were immutable <g>, the implicit casting rules could
apply to them, so that the current code would continue to work.
