Accessing array elements with a pointer-to-array

[Renato]

On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:38:39 UTC, Stephen Tashiro wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 20:36:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 20:11:05 UTC, Stephen Tashiro 
>> wrote:
>>>     void main()
>>>     {
>>>        ulong [3][2] static_array = [ [0,1,2],[3,4,5] ];
>>>        static_array[2][1] = 6;
>>>     }
>>
>> The static array has length 2, so index 2 is out of bounds, 
>> must be 0 or 1.
>
> I understand that the index 2 is out of bounds in an array of 2 
> things.  I'm confused about the notation for multidimensional 
> arrays.  I thought that the notation uint[m][n] is read from 
> right to left, so it denotes n arrays of m things in each 
> array.  So I expected that static_array[k][j] would denotes the 
> kth element of the jth array.

I think the way it actually works is very intuitive, it goes from 
inner to outer. If it went the other way around, you couldn't do 
this:

```d
void main() {
     import std.stdio;
     alias point = int[2];
     point[3] points = [[0, 0], [1, 2], [3, 4]];
     writeln(points);
}
```