Deprecate C style declerations?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
news:emcjig$30qo$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
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> The syntax of static multidimensional arrays is better using C-style I 
> think:
>
> int[2][3][4] a; //  means a[3][2][1] is max legal index
>
> int a[2][3][4]; //  means a[1][2][3] is max legal index

That's true.  In fact, I think there's a flag in the DMD frontend to make it 
so that the D-style

int[2][3][4] a;

would have a max index of [1][2][3].  But that goes against the 
right-to-left rule of declarations..

> I hope D gets real multidimensonal arrays eventually though.  Then the 
> need for all those brackets will go away and you'll just have:
>
>    int[2,3,4] a;

Though they are two different concepts.  If you need a contiguous block of 
memory which can be accessed with more than one dimension, then a 
rectangular array is just what you need.  But for most other applications, 
arrays of arrays are fine, and resizing rectangular arrays is kind of a pain 
so..