Multidimensional array

Oleksiy oleksiy.pavlyuk at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 09:01:14 PDT 2013


> Fixing it so that the sizes for static arrays were read 
> left-to-right would
> definitely be a usability improvement, but even if we were to 
> decide that the
> whole "read the type outward from the variable name" was 
> unimportant enough to
> make the change desirable, it would silently break all kinds of 
> code at this
> point, so we're stuck with it.
>
The way D declares static arrays makes sense and I was actually 
trying to access elements in the same fashion until I realized 
that it's reversed. I than found a remark in Andrei's book 
pointing out the difference.

Thanks for your reply Jonathan.

    --Oleksiy


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