About implicit array cast

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Thu Jan 12 17:30:22 PST 2012


On 01/13/2012 02:19 AM, bearophile wrote:
> This code compiles, because the [0,0] dynamic array literal casts implicitly to int[2]:
>
>
> int[2] foo() {
>      return [0, 0]; // OK
> }
> void main() {}
>
>
> And of course this too compiles:
>
>
> int[2] bar() {
>      int[2] ab;
>      return (true) ? ab : ab; // OK
> }
> void main() {}
>
>
>
> But currently this code doesn't compile:
>
>
> int[2] spam() {
>      int[2] ab;
>      return (true) ? ab : [0, 0]; // Error
> }
> void main() {}
>
>
> test.d(3): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (cast(int[])ab) of type int[] to int[2u]
>
>
> Is this good?
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

This is a bug.


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