static arrays at runtime with templates ?

Paul Backus snarwin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 12:13:04 UTC 2019


On Monday, 4 February 2019 at 22:48:10 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> However one of the possibilities of D is the ability to 
> generate and execute quite some code at compile time by means 
> of meta-programming; and I guess here's where staticArray() may 
> end up being useful enough to have merited introduction into 
> the std library; not for trivial uses where a straightforward 
> T[n] declaration is preferable, being possible...

The main benefit of staticArray is that it allows the length of 
the array to be inferred from the initializer (like in C).


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