Linker error

[Anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 5 June 2016 at 20:16:54 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 6/5/16, Anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn 
> <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> 	static Note[0] empty;
>> 
>> 	Note[] getNotes(string id)
>> 	{
>> 		return (id in store) ? store[id] : empty;
>> 	}
>
> It's likely an accepts-invalid bug, meaning it should be a 
> compiler error instead. I don't think it makes sense that the 
> compiler tries to slice a fixed-length array of length zero.. 
> tho perhaps it should just equate that to returning null.
>
> In any case you can return `null` instead of "empty". 
> Fixed-length arrays of length zero aren't really all that 
> well-defined. Some would say they make no sense, but there is a 
> weird benefit to them when used with the built-in hashmaps (a 
> void[0] value type wouldn't allocate memory, AFAIR and if that 
> is still true).

Should I report this as a dmd bug then? Not sure where / how to 
do that.

I think I'll just let it go; I was able to work passed it anyway 
using "static Note[] empty;", and `null` works too. Is either one 
better?

By the way, this is from an example I found in "D Web 
Development" by Kai Nacke.