On 10/06/12 23:43, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, June 10, 2012 23:23:57 Mehrdad wrote:
I honestly don't see the POINT of having a "dynamic array
literal".
What's the point of making the literals dynamic?
They should all be static, and only converted to dynamic if
necessary from the context.
But I really don't see the benefit of allocating them on the heap
just because we can... perhaps someone can enlighten me?
In the vast majority of cases where an array literal is used, it's assigned to
a dynamic array.
I doubt that very much. I know it's not true in my code, I use array
literals almost exclusively for immutable values.
Usually if you are initializing an array, where you will modify the
elements later, you want all values to be the same.
I argued that array literals should be immutable, just as string
literals are. But I lost.
