string[int[][]] ??
awishformore
awishformore at nospam.plz
Thu Jul 22 14:43:14 PDT 2010
On 22/07/2010 23:21, dcoder wrote:
> == Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
>> This is what I think you should use:
>> string[int[2]]
>> Although, I'm not sure if you can then do something like:
>> chessboard[[0,1]] = "Rook";
>> as the [0, 1] is typed as a dynamic array. If it does work, it may
>> actually create [0,1] on the heap and then pass it as an int[2], which
>> would suck.
>
> board[[0,0]] = "Rook";
>
> seems to work. thanks. But, the foreach loop looks strange. It looks like it
> takes the hash value of the key:
>
> string[int[2]] board;
>
> board[[0,0]] = "Rook";
> board[[0,1]] = "Knight";
>
> foreach( pos, val; board) {
> writefln( "%s: %s", pos, val);
> }
>
>
> Output:
>
> 2 9903680: Knight
> 2 9903696: Rook
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Or, if you know how big your chessboard is (8x8 isn't a lot of memory),
>> then:
>> string[8][8] chessboard;
>> is pretty straightforward :)
>
> Yes it is :) Hehe....
>
>
> Now, what if I wanted to do the following:
>
>
> class Board {
> string[][] positions;
>
> this( int x, y) {
> // set the size of positions
> }
> }
>
> I want positions to internally represent a chess board, a tic tac toe board, or a
> Connect Four board, etc...
>
> But, I want to fix the dimensions of the board when the board gets instantiated,
> so that I can have the compiler do all the work of bounds checking for me. I can
> create class variables maxx, maxy and access functions that check against the
> variables, but I'm wondering if there's a way to make the compiler do it for you.
>
> Is there a way?
>
> thanks.
>
string[8][8] positions; // fixed size array
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