Hey, Coming from a C++ background I first tried typeHere nameHere[]; too. I noticed that newer languages seemed to have type[] name; configuration (Java, C# etc).
I'm not part of the Vala team though, so I dont know the "official" status! -Harry On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > I have noticed that if you declare an array in a wrong way you get errors > from the C compiler > instead of handling it at vala level. > > should this syntax be supported? or we should just throw an error? > > Here's the test case: > > $ cat a.vala > #!/usr/bin/vala > void main () { > // uint8[] foo = new uint8[16]; // OK > uint8 foo[] = new uint8[16]; // FAIL > print("%d\n", foo[0]); > } > > $ vala a.vala > /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c: In function '_vala_main': > /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:16:9: error: array size missing in '_tmp0_' > /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:19:9: error: array size missing in 'foo' > /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:20:16: error: incompatible types when assigning to > type 'guint8[1]' from type 'guint8 *' > /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:20:6: error: incompatible types when assigning to type > 'guint8[1]' from type 'guint8 *' > /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:22:6: error: incompatible types when assigning to type > 'guint8[1]' from type 'void *' > error: cc exited with status 256 > > > Thanks > > --pancake > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >
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