multidimensional array

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:33:40 +0100
Stewart Gordon via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> You can do `new ubyte[256][256]`, if the destination type is a
> ubyte[256][].  The reason is that you are performing an allocation of
> the form `new T[n]`, which means allocate an array of n instances of
> type T.  In this case, T is ubyte[256], which is a static array type.
it's completely counterintuitive. either `new ubyte[256];` should be
disallowed, or `new ubyte[256][256];` should work as i expect it to
work.

it's the same thing as with const methods: `const A foo ()`. yes,
'const' is a method attribute here, but it's counterintuitive.
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