Tango BitArray Initialization

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Feb 11 23:52:29 PST 2007


John Reimer wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:41:48 -0800, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 

> Another simple alternative could employ a static opAssign.
> 
> This would make things much simpler:
> 
> BitArray bitbag = 0b11111000000;
> 
> The value is limited to 64-bits, but at least it's clean and simple for
> those situations where we don't have a long initialization value.
> (this would work for hexidecimal value also).  For any larger values we
> can use an array literal assignment or something similar.
> 

Does opAssign work that way?  I think it has to be done in two lines:

  BitArray bitbag;
  bitbag = 0b11111000000;

Yes that does seem to be the case.  Otherwise you get, bizarrely, the 
error "no property 'opCall' for type 'Foo'".

--bb


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